When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find ou
Freeburn (history, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy, Ontario) examines selected writings by Hugh of Amiens (c. 1080-1164), who during his life served variously as a secular cleric, monk, prior, abbot,
In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged sinc
