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**The "vivid" and "electrifying" true story of how five monks saved the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States from wildfire (*San Francisco Chronicle*). **When a massive wildfire surrounded Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, five monks risked their lives to save it. A gripping narrative as well as a portrait of the Zen path and the ways of wildfire, *Fire Monks* reveals what it means to meet a crisis with full presence of mind.Zen master and author of the classic *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind*, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi established a monastery at Tassajara Hot Springs in 1967, drawn to the location's beauty, peace, and seclusion. Deep in the wilderness east of Big Sur, the center is connected to the outside world by a single unpaved road. The remoteness that makes it an oasis also makes it particularly vulnerable when disaster strikes. If fire entered the canyon, there would be no escape.More than two thousand wildfires, all started by a single lightning storm, blazed across the state of California in June 2008. With resources stretched thin, firefighters advised residents at Tassajara to evacuate early. Most did. A small crew stayed behind, preparing to protect the monastery when

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Author

Busch, Colleen Morton

Publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143121374

Category

religious

Subjects

Buddhism, Social Science, Fiction