My Year of Dirt and Water (eBook)

Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan

Tracy Franz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Stone Bridge Press (Verlag)
978-1-61172-930-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Married to a Zen monk in training, an American woman in Japan chronicles her own year of growth and discoveryIn February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan aloneand lonelyin Japan, she begins to pay attention.My Year of Dirt and Wateris a record of that journey. Allowed only occasional and formal visits to see her cloistered husband, Tracy teaches English, studies Japanese, and devotes herself to making pottery. Her teacher instructs her to turn cup after cupcreating one failure after another.Past and present, East and West intertwine as Tracy is twice compelled to return home to Alaska to confront her mothers newly diagnosed cancer and the ghosts of a devastating childhood.Revolving through the days,My Year of Dirt and Watercircles hard questions: What is love? What is art? What is practice? What do we do with the burden of suffering? The answers are formed and then unformeda ceramic bowl born on the wheel and then returned again and again to dirt and water.

Autor

Originally from Alaska, Tracy Franz lived in Japan for ten years. She now resides in Nova Scotia with her husband—Soto Zen priest Koun Franz—and their two children. Her essays have most recently appeared in Lotus Petals in the Snow: Voices of Canadian Buddhist Women (Sumeru, 2016), Lion’s Roar, and Tricycle Magazine. Find her at tracyfranz.com

Inhalt

Table of Contents SPRINGMarch: The First Month of WaitingApril: Unsui (Clouds and Water)May: Authentic Experience SUMMERJune: Being HereJuly: HomecomingAugust: Legacies FALLSeptember: ReturningOctober: MonasticsNovember: Practice WINTERDecember: ImpermanenceJanuary: IkasuFebruary: Beginnings

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Buddhist women • Japanese culture and society • Japanese traditional pottery • life in Japan • personal journey of reflection • personal memoir • spirit of Zen • Zen Buddhist monastery • zen buddhists • Zen priests
• ISBN-10: 1-61172-930-0 / 1611729300
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61172-930-6 / 9781611729306