Shoes Outside the Door. Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center.
Washington D.C. Counterpoint. 2001. [Reprint]. 385pp., very good hardback copy in dustjacket. The San Francisco Zen Centre was the first Buddhist monastery established outside of Asia. It became hugely successful, with it's real estate including a Hot Springs resort, and vegetarian restaurant that became a hub of counterculture and celebrity..... More