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In 1985, Catharine Burroughs was a Maryland housewife with two childrenand two failed marriages behind herrunning a New Age prayer group in her basement. Out of the blue, a monastery in India for which she had raised some money contacted Burroughs and asked her to host (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3147491.His_Holiness_Penor_Rinpoche) His Holiness Penor Rinpoche , one of the highest-ranking lamas of Tibetan Buddhism, on his first visit to America. After meeting Burroughs, and observing her and her followers for a period of five days, he told her that she was a "great, great bodhisattva," and already, unbeknownst to her, practicing Buddhism. Later, in India, he officially recognized this Jewish-Italian woman from Brooklyn as the reincarnation of a sixteenth-century Tibetan saint, making her the first American woman to be named a tulku, or reborn lama. The Buddha from Brooklyn tells the complex and fascinating story of how Catharine Burroughs, now known as Jetsunma Ahkn Lhamo, embarked on a journey to build the largest Tibetan Buddhist center in America. With boundless enthusiasm but precious little formal training in Buddhist practices and traditions, Jetsunma and her stud

Who reads The Buddha from Brooklyn?

Author

Sherrill, Martha

Publisher

New York : Random House

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679452751

Category

history

Subjects

Buddhism, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.46 / 5 (92 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14