Shopping for Buddhas
A Travel, Autobiography, Cultural book. Far below, making their way through the swinging glass doors, a retinue of Buddhist monks...
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- Pages: 198 pages
- ISBN: 9780864424716 / 0
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Far below, making their way through the swinging glass doors, a retinue of Buddhist monks entered the Shopping Center. They approached in single file, heads shaven, their robes flowing behind them like a flood of freshly squeezed Florida orange juice.The crowd melted, parting like a biblical sea to allow them through. The guard abashedly lowered his nightstick and stepped hastily aside. And the monks, without pause or ceremony, simply mounted the escalator and rode it to the next level. Jeff Greenwald, Shopping for Buddhas // There are deeper reasons to travelitches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there. Jeff Greenwald, Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal //
An easy read about shopping for Buddhas in Kathmandu--I learned much about the art of Buddha shopping and the politics of Napal. I appreciate the authors candid, honest, and often humorous writing style. This is a funny, modest, and insightful account of the author's travels, as well as his political and spiritual awakenings. The short postscript in particular is a revealing account of Nepal's political situation at the time, whilst being helpfully seperate from the more humorous narrative in the rest of the book. Thought it was great fun to read, lively travel writing with some fantasy - just like you would expect from Nepal. Read it about 17 years ago.
