Robert E. BuswellRessenyes

Really interesting read! I didn't fully understand what it is that monks did on a daily basis (I imagined it to be something like meditating all day with breaks for small meals), so this book taught me a LOT about life in a monastery and the different roles that monks must play to keep the organization running. Buswell is so passionate about the subject and knows so goddamn much. I appreciated his care in integrating his personal experiences with his more objective knowledge to gently contradict the way Zen Buddhism is portrayed in the west.

Great reference for Buddhism. Easy to use and find entries.

Another great work from Robert Buswell, and a great corrective to those who are under the romantic illusion of Zen training propagated by all those stories of wild and wooly zen masters.

A scholarly yet personal account of the author's experiences in a Korean Zen monastary.