The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist In dia by Rodger Kamenetz

The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist In dia by Rodger Kamenetz

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.

Roger Kamenetz is the author of the international hit The Jew in the Lotus and the National Jewish Book Award-winning novel Chasing Eljah. He is a trained dream therapist and a Distinguished Professor of English and Religion Studies at Louisiana State University. He and his wife, fiction writer Moira Crone, live in New Orleans.