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Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
Shoes Outside the Door Desire Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
Author: Michael Downing
ISBN-13: 9781582431130
ISBN-10: 1582431132
Publication Date: 10/2001
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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reviewed Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center on + 113 more book reviews
Very well-written, well-researched account of the Zen Center scandals at the end of the last century.
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American Zen Buddhist drama - sounds oxymoronic. "No good deed goes unpunished" as they say. Who knew that Deborah Madison, Smith & Hawken and The Whole Earth Catalog had ties to this movement? At 385 pages and written by an outsider, it was a fast and enjoyable read.