Bones of the Master A Journey to Secret Mongolia

Name: Bones of the Master A Journey to Secret Mongolia
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ISBN: 9780553379082

ISBN-10: 0553379089

ISBN-13: 9780553379082

Edition: Reprint

Authors: George Crane, George Crane

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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. 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. They are unlikely companions. Crane seeks freedom, adventure, sensation. Tsung Tsai is determined to…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

George Crane is a former correspondent for overseas news agencies & the author of four books of poetry, as well as translations from the Chinese co-authored with Tsung Tsai. He lives in upstate New York.