Jun
08
2007
Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things
Posted by: Alan in Book Reviews, Books, Memoir, Non-Fiction
Gary Geddes is a poet, editor and teacher in Vancouver, BC who is fascinated by stories of Huishen, an obscure Buddhist monk said to have fled persecution in Kabul, Afghanistan circa 450BC, traveled across China via the Silk Road then across the Pacific to the Americas, returning to China 40 years later.
Tags: Afghanistan, Book Reviews, Books, China, Gary Geddes, history of Buddhism, Huishen, Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, Memoir, migration
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