The Saffron Road
A Journey with Buddha's Daughters
$32.87
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2016
Summary
A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female spirituality that stretches back through the centuries and now embraces the radical possibility that the next Dalai Lama could be female.
In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of earlier generations of Buddhist nu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846274930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846274931 |
| Author: | Christine Toomey |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Christine Toomey
Christine Toomey has been a foreign correspondent and feature writer for the Sunday Times for more than 20 years, reporting extensively from Latin America, the Middle East and throughout Europe. She has investigated the sinking of Russia’s Kursk nuclear submarine and the mass murder of women in Guatemala, reported from Kosovo and Bosnia on the fate of children born to women raped during the Balkans wars, tracked down a wanted Nazi war criminal, and lived for a week with the two wives of a Hamas politician in the West Bank. She has received several prizes for her journalism, including two Amnesty International Awards for Magazine Story of the Year.
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