The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student--later a widely celebrated mystery writer--who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism," has written, "The Empty Mirror" "should be very en... Full description