Footprints in the Snow The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk

Name: Footprints in the Snow The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk
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ISBN: 9780385513302

ISBN-10: 0385513305

ISBN-13: 9780385513302

Edition: 2008

Authors: Master Chan Sheng Yen, Kenneth Wapner

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Master Sheng-Yen has devoted much of his life to spreading the teachings of Chinese Buddhism-a practice that antedates the more familiar Japanese and Tibetan traditions-throughout the world. He became known in the United States after he began founding meditation centers here in 1980. Now in his late seventies, he tells the remarkable story of his life and spiritual education in FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW. From descriptions of the private world of Buddhist masters to first-hand accounts of Chinese history, it is a rare document that is both an important look at China's past and a compelling spiritual journey across a lifetime. Sheng-Yen7;s story is of a life lived in the last years of the…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/21/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

CHAN MASTER SHENG YEN is the author of more than fifty books on Buddhist teachings. He divides his time between New York City and Taipei.




Shoes of Woven Grass



The Open Door



Wolf Mountain



Going to Heaven



Rites for the Dead



A Monk's Education



Army of the Faithful



Dropping the Mind



Free at Last



"The filial son is produced under the cane"



Wild Potato Leaves



Lampooned and Feared



In the Land of the Rising Sun



Forays West



Eating Bitter



Wandering



The First Altar



Chan in the Hills



Drum Beats East



Full Circle


Epilogue


Editor's Note