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Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains
- Misadventures on a Buddhist Pilgrimage
- Narrated by: Paul Barach
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Age 28 and fed up with the office job he settled for, Paul Barach decided to travel to Japan to follow a vision he had in college: to walk the ancient 750-mile Shikoku pilgrimage trail.
Here are some things he did not decide to do: learn Japanese, do any research, road test his hiking shoes, or check if it's the hottest summer in history.
And he went anyway, hoping to change his life.
Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains is the absurd and dramatic journey of one impulsive American's search for answers on a holy path in an exotic land. Along the pathway connecting 88 Buddhist temples, he'll face arduous mountain climbs, hide from guards in a toilet stall, challenge a priest to a mountaintop karate battle, and other misadventures.
He'll also delve into the fascinating legends of this ancient land, including a dragon-fighting holy man, a berserker warrior-priest, haunted temples, and a vendetta-driven ghost that overthrew a dynasty.
Told with humor and humility, Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains is a funny, engaging memoir about the consequences of impulsive decisions, and the things you can discover while you're looking for something else.
Also, that boars are terrifying in person.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-07-17
Awful echo's in the first few chapters
Good story but awful echo/reverb on the first few chapters made this very hard to listen too
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Heikki
- 12-10-16
Ok listen
I appreciate the story, but this did not seem like a journey worth writing a book about. Perhaps a blog post with pictures would have sufficed.
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