Mindfulness as Medicine by Sister Dang Nghiem

Mindfulness as Medicine by Sister Dang Nghiem

A Buddhist nun shares her profound journey of healing, plus step-by-step directions for embracing and transforming suffering through mindfulness, meditation, and other techniques
 
Before she became a Buddhist nun in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Dang Nghiem was a doctor. She'd traveled far in her 43 years. Born during the Tet Offensive and part of the amnesty for Amerasian children of the late 1970s, Dang Nghiem arrived in this country virtually penniless and with no home. She lived with three foster families, but graduated high school with honors, earned two undergraduate degrees, and became a doctor. When the man she thought she'd spend her life with suddenly drowned, Sister Dang Nghiem left medicine and joined the monastic community of Thich Nhat Hanh.

It is from this vantage point that Dang Nghiem writes about her journey of healing in Mindfulness as Medicine. Devastated by the diagnosis and symptoms of Lyme, she realized that she was also reliving many of the unresolved traumas from earlier in her life. She applied both her medical knowledge and her advanced understanding and practice of mindfulness to healing. Through meditation she finally came to understand what it means to "master" suffering.

SISTER DANG NGHIEM, MD (Sister D) was born during the Tet Offensive in 1968 in Vietnam, the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier. She lost her mother when she was twelve years old and came to the United States with her brother when she was seventeen. She acquired English while living in several foster families and went on to get a medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. She left her career as a doctor in 2000 to travel to Plum Village monastery in France, founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, where she was ordained a nun. Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun (2010) is her memoir, and Mindfulness as Medicine: A Tale of Healing and Spirit (2015) is her second book. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Studies program honored her in 2019 by awarding her the T.

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ISBN 13	9781937006945
ISBN 10	1937006948
Title	Mindfulness as Medicine
Author	Sister Dang Nghiem
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Parallax Press
Year published	2015-03-02
Number of pages	352
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