Turtle Feet
Author: Grozni, Nikolai
ISBN: 9781594483769
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 05 May 2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliantly colorful memoir of becoming a monk and a young man's spiritual journey in India.
Nikolai Grozni, a Boston jazzpiano prodigy struck by spiritual ennui, suddenly abandoned 15 years of music studies to seek out the Dalai Lama's university in India, where he began his quest for the ultimate truth. Instead of finding answers, Grozni fell in with an unusual cast of characters, and struggled with Buddhist logic and with the many small challenges to life as a monk in a community of Tibetan refugees.Turtle Feetis his bittersweet and funny memoir about the search for higher power, and the discovery of oneself amidst teeming, chaotic, and glorious humanity.
ISBN: 9781594483769
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 05 May 2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliantly colorful memoir of becoming a monk and a young man's spiritual journey in India.
Nikolai Grozni, a Boston jazzpiano prodigy struck by spiritual ennui, suddenly abandoned 15 years of music studies to seek out the Dalai Lama's university in India, where he began his quest for the ultimate truth. Instead of finding answers, Grozni fell in with an unusual cast of characters, and struggled with Buddhist logic and with the many small challenges to life as a monk in a community of Tibetan refugees.Turtle Feetis his bittersweet and funny memoir about the search for higher power, and the discovery of oneself amidst teeming, chaotic, and glorious humanity.
