Koopje A Zen Romance One Woman’s Adventures in a Monastery – Deborah Boliver Boehm

A Zen Romance is a madcap memoir by an American woman who went to Japan in the late 1960s and – much to her own surprise – lost her heart to Zen. When the author first went to Japan to study the language, she was relatively unaffected by the Zen fervor then gripping young people across the United States. She was even known to announce, only half-jokingly, that she was going to Japan to “get away from Zen.” But as it happened, the small room she rented in Kyoto was actually on the grounds of an ancient monas…