Ebook {Epub PDF} The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei by John Stevens

Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei, Paperback by Stevens, John; Namba, Tadashi (PHT), ISBN , ISBN , Brand New, Free shipping in the US. See details. - Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei, Paperback by Stevens, John; Namba, Tadashi (PHT See Brand: Echo Point Books AND Media. Echo Point Books has recently republished John Stevens’s The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei. Much like the monks’ own practices, this is to everyone’s benefit. Stevens’s work is a tremendously readable account, weaving together firsthand experience, interviews and extensive research on an extremely driven order of monks that has existed for centuries in Japan. The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei is a documentation of a sect of Tendai Buddhist monks in the mountains outside Kyoto, Japan. Unique within their journey of personal enlightenment is the incorporation days or 1,days of consecutive marathon distance (km) pilgrimages through their mountain www.doorway.ru by: 8.

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Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei. Posted on January 5, Novem. by Dharma Documentaries. The extraordinary pilgrimage of a Buddhist monk belonging to the Tendai sect of Buddhism in Japan. These are two films having the same subject, but only partly overlapping content. The first is the extraordinary story of one Tendai monk in Japan who undertakes one of the most difficult and dangerous austerities I have come across, walking on foot round Mount Hiei times in a pilgrimage. The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei: Author: John Stevens: Photographs by: Tadashi Namba. In his book, The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei, John Stevens sums up the greatest contributions of these spiritual adventurers: “The most admirable thing about the Hiei gyoja is their warmth, open-heartedness and humanity Facing death over and over, the marathon monks become alive to each moment, full of gratitude, joy and grace .