A small and admirable memoir that records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery.

THE EMPTY MIRROR

janwillem-van-de-wetering

Biographies & Memoirs

Thoth Publications

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen monastery

Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student―later a widely celebrated mystery writer―who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers."
It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with A Glimpse of Nothingness and Afterzen.

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

Community & Culture

St. Martin's: Griffin

The Japanese Corpse

Investigating a case involving a murder in an Amsterdam suburb which is apparently the work of the dreaded yakusa, a Japanese version of the Mafia, Detectives De Gier and Grijpstra are led far afield to the holy city of Kyoto

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Ballantine Books

Amsterdam detectives De Gier and Grijpstra, investigating an apparently unmotivated murder, come to slippery grips with a stealthy hijacker and a sinister Arab crime-syndicate head

Corpse on the Dike

The murder of Mr. Jones, owner of a Maine oil refinery and despoiler of the environment, yields a variety of suspects

Murder by Remote Control

Comics & Graphic Novels

Paul Kirchner

Graphic Novels

A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community

The author recounts his involvement with Zen Buddhism and his visit to a rural Zen community in the U.S

Religion & Spirituality

The Mind-Murders (A Grijpstra and de Gier Mystery Novel)

Book club edition. Dust jacket is tattered

Buddhism

Houghton, Mifflin Company

The Blond Baboon

Literature & Fiction

United States

Houghton/Mifflin

Corgi

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THE EMPTY MIRROR

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

The Japanese Corpse

Corpse on the Dike

Murder by Remote Control

A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community

The Mind-Murders (A Grijpstra and de Gier Mystery Novel)

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen monastery

The Blond Baboon

The Japanese Corpse