Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Zen Journal and Letters of an Irish Woman in Japan
- ISBN-10
- 0722537859
- ISBN-13
- 9780722537855
- Category
- Buddhist nuns
- Pages
- 311
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-08
- Publisher
- HarperThorsons
- Authors
- Maura O'Halloran, Elizabeth O'Halloran
Description
At the age of 24, Maura O'Halloran travelled to Japan, where she spent three years studying Zen Buddhism. On her way back to Ireland, she was tragically killed, and is now venerated as a Buddhist saint.
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- 2013-02-08
- 352 pages
- Ebook
- Simon and Schuster
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- 2007-04-17
- 352 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
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- 1994
- 311 pages
- Paperback
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
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