A death on Diamond Mountain : a true story of obsession, madness, and the path to enlightenment
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- ISBN: 1592408613 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781592408610 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
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xxi, 277 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Group, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015.
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General Note: | "Gotham Books"--Title page. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographic references. |
Summary, etc.: | "An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson's death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations-and undertake it in illusory ways-can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson's wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died."-- |
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East Longmeadow Public Library | 294.3 CAR (Text) | 30595000939507 | Second Floor | Available | - |