Around the World with a Drum: Diary of a Buddhist Monk

“I wasn’t in a hurry to become a believer; I saw Buddhism more as a psychological inquiry. Later I learned that even the Buddha himself advised that we should relate to all his words in exactly this way: ‘Don’t take anything on faith; test everything through your own experience…’ In any case, on January 8, 1994, I shaved my head and became a monk of the Nipponzan Myohoji order. Half a year later, it was time to go to Japan. Sensei decided that we would travel to Japan through China.” Then there were India and Nepal, then again China and Japan. Five years of wandering in yellow robes and with a drum in his hands. And five volumes of diaries—here they are.
Life choices, real stories, a person’s fate.