Collection
Status
Available
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Publication
Padma Publishing (1997), 179 pages
Description
"There are many forms of liberation-some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters from death-row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, he explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals the life of a young man surrounded by violence, his entanglement in the criminal justice system, and-following an encounter with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche-an unfolding commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking. At turns joyful, heartbreaking, frightening, and soaring with profound insight, Masters's story offers a vision of hope and the possibility of freedom in even the darkest of times"--
User reviews
LibraryThing member CarlaR
I had a hard time reading this book, not because of what is depicted in the book, but simply because I didn't like the writing. It was very thin (both book wise and story wise) and took me a few hours to read.
LibraryThing member beau.p.laurence
another beatiful, intelligent black man on death row
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ISBN
188184708X / 9781881847083
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Call number
MAS-101
Pages
179