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The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind

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I love this book. Its core is a riveting spiritual biography of a single modern Thai nun, but the focus of the book gradually widens to include other nuns and then the situation of nuns in Thailand generally. Thematically, it is strikingly similar to Sallie King's Journey in Search of the Way, despite the obvious difference that the latter is a translation of and commentary on a spiritual autobiography. The sameness is that they are both vivid accounts of modern Asian women undergoing profound spiritual experience that take them into the territorial preserves of patriarchal Buddhist institutions. I don't know Sid Brown, but she can count me as a fan.

This is truly a wonderful and insightful book. There is simply not enough written about Buddhist nuns and the nun's or woman's point of view.
Another great book that I highly recommend is "Women Living Zen" by Paul Kane Robinson Arai.

This is not an autobiography...simply a biography. Sid is very insightful and quite the inspiring woman herself. I can't wait for another book.