Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (573 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553379089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
They are unlikely companions. Crane seeks freedom, adventure, sensation. In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. As their search culminates in a torturous climb to a remote mountain cave, it becomes clear that this seemingly quixotic quest may cost both men's lives.. Tsung Tsai is determined to find his master's grave and plant the seeds of a spiritual renewal in China. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the teachings of his Buddhist meditation master, who was too old to leave with his disciple.Nearly forty years later Tsung Tsai — now an old master himself — persuades his American neighbor, maverick poet George Crane, to travel with him back to his birthplace at the edge of the Gobi Desert
I laughed, I cried, I offered incense, I bowed. This book will have an honored place on my bookshelf next to Lama Govinda's 'The Way of the White Clouds', Lama David-Neel's 'Magic and Mystery in Tibet', John Blofeld's 'The Wheel of Life', and Peter Matthiessen's 'Nine Headed Dragon River'.It is a valuable record of the power and value of the Buddha Dharma for human life and endurance in this ocean-of-suffering world.. A religious adventure of multilevel reading Magalini Sabina It's difficult to say something original after 58 reviews! A book that get's so many is probably worth it.Let's start from the title "Bones of the Master", relics? A Christian would call them that. The corporal spoils of a saint are relics. To our modern christian mind the adoration of relics has something of medieval flavour and the translation of body rests seems real. "Brought Peace" according to Giorgian Beliciu. I purchased for my wife, she was so happy
As their mutual affection grows, Crane absorbs Tsung Tsai's spare but demanding philosophy, which sustains them through the base poverty of northern China, a life-threatening 18-hour climb up and down a treacherous mountain, and a confrontation with a master of black magic. The last of the monks from his Chinese monastery, Tsung Tsai felt he had to return one last time to find and honor his master's bones and rekindle his tradition. A "poet, philosopher, house builder, scientist, doctor, and when necessary, kung fu ass-kicker," Tsung Tsai would still be wandering about anonymously