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Notes From the Tsz Shan Monastery: Of Big Buddhas and Small Men

This is a sanctuary for "spiritual purification," I've been told. And for a man who may be as spiritually bankrupt as I am, I thought it would be a good exercise to participate in this reckoning.

My first encounter with Buddhism, for better or for worse, was through my favorite spiritual entertainer, the great Allan Watts. While he isn't exactly the greatest representation of Buddhist scholarship (he got a lot of things wrong, especially about zen and ...

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