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Interview · Pacific Zen Institute · 2023On Books and Tales
91 min
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An hour and a half with Jon Joseph of Pacific Zen Institute on storytelling as a form of practice.

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Zen · novelist

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American novelist, filmmaker and Zen priest (born 1956), ordained in the Soto tradition. Her novels, among them A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness, have been translated into more than thirty languages and carry the questions of practice into fiction.

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