In This Body, In This Lifetime: Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen Women Fiction_Gift_Guide and what they chose to

and what they chose to live and die for

picnic on the grounds of the Frederiksberg Palace

When the sisters are forced to attend an "Indian school" far from their home

the uses of scholarship

plus a fascinating look into Cork’s teenage years in Aurora—a town blessed with natural beauty

In This Body, In This Lifetime: Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen Women Fiction_Gift_Guide and what they chose toAvailable for the first time in English, an intimate look into the private lives and spiritual experiences of 30 nuns and laywomen practicing under pioneering female Zen master Sozen Nagasawa Roshi in World War II era Japan. Born in 1888, Sozen Nagasawa Roshi was a pioneer of womens monastic Zen practice in Japan. With a profound wish to become a nun from a young age, she persevered through the extreme social pressures and material difficulties facing