{"product_id":"girl-in-a-box-seeking-enlightenment-as-a-tibetan-buddhist-nun","title":"Girl In A Box: Seeking Enlightenment As A Tibetan Buddhist Nun","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Oklahoma GirlS Years Of Immersion In A Tibetan Buddhist Monasterygirl In A Box: Seeking Enlightenment As A Tibetan Buddhist Nun Chronicles A FiveYear Immersion In The ParadigmAltering World Of A Tibetan Retreat Center In New YorkS Hudson Valley. It Weaves Flashbacks Of Collins Former Life With Her Ongoing Attempts To Surrender To Monastic Life. She Travels To India With Her Teacher, Takes Vows As A Nun, Then Returns To Life At The Monastery Where She Works As A House Cleaner Days And Evenings To Earn Money To Attend A DreamedOf ThreeYear Retreat. In Her Struggle To Become A Stellar Nun, She Conducts A OneSided Jealous Rivalry With A Beautiful And Perfect Young NunWhom She Later Discovers Is Hiding A Shocking Secret. She Also Describes The Grueling Practice Of Performing Over 100,000 Prostrations And Her Disillusionment Upon Learning Of The Imperfect Humanity Of Her Revered Teachers.As The Underlying Grace Of Those Years Spent With The Tibetans Come Into Focus, Collins Sees That She Is Like A Girl Who Packs Her Suitcase And Sets Off Down The Road Only To Discover She Has Nowhere To Go. What She Is SeekingThe Very Home She Longs ForHas Been Right There All Along. Hiding In Plain Sight; Masked In A Cloak Of The Suffering She So Longs To Escape. Overlooked. Because, As The Tibetans TeachItS Too Simple, Too Obvious, Too Close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monkfish Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47958678962421,"sku":"DADAX196660825X","price":43.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91PKfQY1Y7L.jpg?v=1775578505","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/girl-in-a-box-seeking-enlightenment-as-a-tibetan-buddhist-nun","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}