A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief: Spiritual Journeys through Christian and Buddhist Monasteries of the American West

A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief is a spiritual narrative of one man's calling to the life of monastic devotion. It is both an adventure story, in which the author travels into the world of monastic life, and a journey into his own interior geography, during which he struggles with his identity as well as the life and death of his alcoholic father.