| #149582 in Books | Echo Point Books Media | 2013-02-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.02 x.35 x8.50l,.93 | File Name: 1626549958 | 166 pages | Ships from Vermont
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Been wanting to read this for years!|By Halszka Bak|The book is a surprisingly large format, looks like a foreign language textbook. The pictures are a bit low-quality, but that's what you'd expect from pics done in 1980s when these were taken. It really is a minor complaint, for the power of this book is in the content, the text, the words themselves. It is a thoughtful and w|From Library Journal|pap. $12.95. rel Japan's Mount Hiei is home to the monastery of the "Running Buddhas" or "marathon monks" who pursue enlightenment via 1000-day marathons that must each be completed in a seven-year training period. Stevens, a professor of B
The greatest athletes in the world today are not the Olympic champions or the stars of professional sports, but the "marathon monks" of Japan's sacred Mount Hiei. Over a seven-year training period, these "running buddhas" figuratively circle the globe on foot. During one incredible 100-day stretch, they cover 52.5 miles daily—twice the length of an Olympic marathon. And the prize they seek to capture is the greatest thing a human being can achieve: enlightenmen...
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