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The Empty Mirror, Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

The Empty Mirror, Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

by Janwillem Van De Wetering

  • RELIGION
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 160 PAGES

A candid account of novelist van de Wetering's experiences as a novice monk at Daitoku-ji Zen monastery in Kyoto in the late 1950s. Van de Wetering is the Dutch author of a wildly popular series of detective novels.  (JPN164, $14.95)


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