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| Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun | ||
| 作者 | Adiele, Faith |
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| 出版日期 | 2004.04 |
| 頁次 | 288 |
| 出版者 | W.W. Norton & Company |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.wwnorton.com/ |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | 尸羅=戒=command=Precept=sila=morality=rule=discipline=prohibition; 比丘尼=Buddhist Nun=Bhiksuni=Bhikkhuni; 地獄=Hell=Naraka ; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 信心=Belief=Faith; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 靜坐=Meditation; 禪修=Meditation |
| 摘要 | Reluctantly leaving behind Pop Tarts and pop culture to battle flying rats, hissing cobras, forest fires, and decomposing corpses, Faith Adiele shows readers in this personal narrative, with accompanying journal entries, that the path to faith is full of conflicts for even the most devout. Residing in a forest temple, she endured nineteen-hour daily meditations, living on a single daily meal, and days without speaking. Internally Adiele battled against loneliness, fear, hunger, sexual desire, resistance to the Buddhist worldview, and her own rebellious Western ego. Adiele demystifies Eastern philosophy and demonstrates the value of developing any practice—Buddhist or not. This "unlikely, bedraggled nun" moves grudgingly into faith, learning to meditate for seventy-two hours at a stretch. Her witty, defiant twist on the standard coming-of-age tale suggests that we each hold the key to overcoming anger, fear, and addiction; accepting family; redefining success; and re-creating community and quality of life in today's world. |
| 目次 | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS STRIPPING A PREFACE 1. Killing Faith 2. Birthing Faith 3. The Edge of the Forest 4. The Anthropology of Place 5. Orchids: Half Sacred, Half Profane 6. American Girls 7. Going to Hell 8. Harvard Rules 9. The Anthropology of Myself 10. Fieldwork 11. Pilgrims 12. The Body of Woman 13. Hungry Ghosts 14. The Naga Princess 15. Lessons in Lying and Killing for the Black Buddhist Nun 16. Open Doors 17. Flying Igbos 18. Landing GET MARRIED, BUY A CAR: EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS |
| ISBN | 0393057844 (hc) |
| 點閱次數 | 165 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.03.25 |
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