Breakfast with Buddha
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781565125520 (1565125525)
Publish date: October 2nd 2007
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages no: 323
Edition language: English
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It's hard to write good fiction when you have an agenda that is so close to the surface. It seems usually either the fiction suffers or the philosophy suffers. Breakfast With Buddha does a pretty good job though. The story is plausible and engaging and the ideas from Eastern Philosophy are nicely wo...
This was an enjoyable spiritual travelogue (first time I've ever read that kind of book!) Following the deaths of his parents in North Dakota, Otto--an editor of books about food-- gets stuck road-tripping with a Russian spiritual guru (Volya Rinpoche) to the family farm in order to take care of his...