No More Masks: Journals & Letters on a Bowing Pilgrimage (Volume 3)

Reverend Heng Sure; Bhikshu Heng Ch'au (Martin Verhoeven); Buddhist Text Translation Society

ISBN 10: 0881399086 / ISBN 13: 9780881399080

Published by Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS), 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No More Masks: Journals & Letters on a Bowing Pilgrimage (Volume 3)
• Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS)
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881399086
• ISBN 13: 9780881399080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.2 pounds

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Synopsis

American Buddhist monks Heng Sure and Heng Chao undertook the ancient ascetic practice of bowing once every three steps on a two and a half year pilgrimage up the coast of California. They took with them only their faith and a wish for world peace as the inched their way along at about a mile and a half a day. Who gave them food? Where did they sleep? How did they diffuse the anger of drunks and overcome the hostility of law enforcement? What lessons did they learn in compassion and humility? And most important, what can we learn from their journey? Journals and Letters on a Bowing Pilgrimage is an eight volume series of the monks daily activities and reflections. No More Masks is volume 3 in the series. It covers the period from October 1977 to February 1978 from Lompoc to Morro Bay.

About the Author

Rev. Heng Sure was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1976. For the sake of world peace, he undertook an over six hundred mile pilgrimage from South Pasadena to Ukiah, repeatedly taking three steps and one bow to cover the entire journey. In the entire two years taken to make the pilgrimage, he observed a practice of total silence. Rev. Heng Sure has an M.A. in Oriental Languages from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He serves as the Managing Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and teaches on the staff at the Institute for World Religions. He is actively involved in interfaith dialogue and in the ongoing conversation between spirituality and technology.