Signed Collectibles
Jan Chozen Bays: Signed "How to Train a Wild Elephant"
- Item Number
- 246
- Estimated Value
- 75 USD
- Sold
- 40 USD to NancyBrendl
- Number of Bids
- 4 - Bid History
Item Description
One reviewer of How to Train a Wild Elephant said that “This is the kind of book you can open to any page, anytime, and read something that just might stop your mind in its tracks.”
Since 1985 Jan Chozen Bays has been the teacher for the Zen Community of Oregon. In 2002 she helped to found Great Vow Zen Monastery and currently is the co-abbot. Chozen is also a pediatrician, mother and wife. As a physician she is very interested in how meditation and science interface. She is particularly involved teaching how to use meditation to work with eating disorders and grief.
Shambhala Publications has long been one of the premier publishers of dharma and spiritual books in the West. From simple beginnings in Berkeley at the height of the sixties counterculture, Shambhala Publications went on to become one of the most respected publishers of the most important books in the spiritual landscape. Their landmark titles include Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi, Edward Espe Brown's Tassajara Bread Book, Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, best selling translations of the Art of War, Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart, and Suzuki Roshi's classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
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