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The Wild White Goose
by Roshi Jiyu Kennett

This book is based on the diaries of the years in Japan of Roshi Jiyu-Kennett, one of the first Western women to become a Zen Master.

In addition to telling of her search for Truth and how she found Enlightenment in the midst of suffering, illness, and hardship, it gives the reader a rare and illuminating insight into the life in a large Zen training monestary.

The often baffling, sometimes cruel-appearing, actions of the monks are seen here, not through the eyes of a casual visitor or one who stayed a few months or years and left, but in the perspective of a woman who stayed and trained 8 years and who was certified as a full priest and Roshi.

CONDITION:Softcover, 202 pages, USED, wear to cover, book clean, 1977