false 3268590 1 Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianist training at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, when suddenly he decided to transform his life. He moved to India to become a Buddhist monk, shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donning long traditional robes. In the Himalayas living in a hut a stone's throw from the Dalai Lama's compound Grozni became entrenched in a sometimes comical, sometimes reverent, always intriguing community comprised of feisty nuns, bossy monks, violent chess players, demanding teachers, and a spectacular friend called Tsar, a fallen monk from Bosnia.<BR><BR> Grozni went to India in search of knowledge, but learns that the people who can teach him the most are not wearing uniforms and following special diets, but rather those who, like him, struggle with doubts and cannot accept an established system of faith. Instead, he journeys with his colorful cast of friends to a new understanding of himself and his place in the world.<BR><BR> Like Anne Lamott or Elizabeth Gilbert, Nikolai Grozni offers the insights of a religious pilgrim from the inside, in his case, from a male, Buddhist perspective. Thoughtful, funny, and elegantly written, <I>Turtle Feet</I> details the reality of a world much mythologized in the West and tells a wonderfully bittersweet story of a spiritual journey. 3303927 15 5 2008 Turtle Feet total:84|5:15|4:32|3:34|2:3|1:0| 84 311 195 25 4 6 false false Sat May 03 13:31:14 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 19:29:53 -0700 2008
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