The Barn at the End of the World : The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
(2020)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Milkweed Editions, 2020
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (346 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781571319265 MWT13625786, 1571319263 13625786
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this decidedly down-to-earth, often-hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich Nhat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world
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