Book description
From one of the central figures in Buddhism's introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one's own path that Pico Iyer calls 'unflinching' and 'indispensable.'
The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New…
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Lotus Girl is a partial autobiography by one of the leaders in the Buddhism in North America experiences of the last and current centuries. I say it is "partial" because her life is so much more than she included in this one volume. However, given that she did want to focus on how she became a Buddhist and a leader in Canadian and USA Buddhist cultures, it does do that (mostly).
I was alternately intrigued and left feeling deprived as she went from general and specific experiences back to general without enough details, in my opinion, of what she was…
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