Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China by Bill Porter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Go all the way to 10th century China carrying a cell phone, riding a bus, drinking tea, getting cold wet and tired...Go all the way! Travelling with Red Pine is so much fun and then he throws in his vast knowledge of Chinese Buddhism and literature, especially poetry. I hang on his footnotes. This book is the next best thing to travelling China with Red Pine. What an exceeding generous host to a world very far away and hard to reach.  Only a few pass through and fewer yet come back and share the tale.


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