The Empty Mirror

Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student—later a widely celebrated mystery writer—who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of *Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism*, has written, *The Empty Mirror* "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers."

It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with *A Glimpse of Nothingness* and *Afterzen*.