The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India

While accompanying eight high-spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist-Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues with leading rabbis and Jewish thinkers, including Zalman Schacter, Yitz and Blue Greenberg, and a host of religious and disaffected Jews and Jewish Buddhists.

This amazing journey through Tibetan Buddhism and Judaism leads Kamenetz to a renewed appreciation of his living Jewish roots.

Author: Rodger Kamenetz
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 08/21/2007
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.60w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780061367397

About the Author
Kamenetz, Rodger: -

Roger Kamenetz wrote the landmark international bestseller, The Jew in the Lotus, and the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Stalking Eljah. He is a Louisiana State University Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies and a certified dream therapist. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, fiction writer Moira Crone.