Petals From The Sky
- ISBN13: 9780758241818
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun’s life means only deprivation – ‘no freedom, no love, no meat’. But to Meng Ning, it means the chance to control her own destiny, and to live in an oasis of music, art, and poetry far from her parents’ unhappy union. With an enigmatic nun known as Yi Kong, ‘Depending on Emptiness’, as her mentor, Meng Ning spends the next ten years studying abroad, d… More >>