{"product_id":"are-we-there-yet-isbn-9781582436302","title":"Are We There Yet?","description":"The journey of Buddhism over centuries, from India to China and then to Japan, is the stuff of mythology. But now, in our own time, we have witnessed and documented its historic crossing of the Pacific and its subsequent evolution in the Americas and Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1982, writer Peter Muryo Matthiessen, the first dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman, traveled with Glassman to pay respects to the teachers in their lineage, some of the great living Zen masters of twentieth–century Japan. What took place was an important meeting of minds representing the past, present, and future of Zen practice, an intimate connection between ancestors and descendants marking a critical point in the Zen journey from the East to the West. This historic event was captured in the moment by the selective lens of Peter Cunningham. Matthiessen's exquisite poetic accounts of this pilgrimage, which formed a part of his book \u003ci\u003eNine–Headed Dragon River\u003c\/i\u003e, accompany the photos.\u003cb\u003ePeter Matthiessen\u003c\/b\u003e was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, CIA agent, and co-founder of the literary magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. A prominent environmental activist, his nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably \u003ci\u003eThe Snow Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e, and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, \u003ci\u003eIn the Spirit of Crazy Horse\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction was adapted for film: the early story \"Travelin' Man\" was made into \u003ci\u003eThe Young One\u003c\/i\u003e by Luis Buñuel and the novel \u003ci\u003eAt Play in the Fields of the Lord\u003c\/i\u003e into the 1991 film of the same name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for \u003ci\u003eShadow Country\u003c\/i\u003e, a one-volume, 890-page revision of his three novels set in frontier Florida that had been published in the 1990s. He died in 2014.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302755881189,"sku":"NP9781582436302","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582436302.jpg?v=1767721753","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/are-we-there-yet-isbn-9781582436302","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}