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Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir
Paperback
Series: Monkfish Memoirs, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9780972635707
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
The author's eye is wide open, and her writing is fresh, funny, and exhilarating.--Peter Matthiessen
Marilyn Stablein's wry voice tells how it was, calmly and clearly, unadorned. . . . whether on the ground with sadhus and chapatis or in the sky with diamonds, these wry prose poems evoke a last epiphany of the best of East and West.--Keith Dowman, author of The Power Places of Tibet
In 1965, Stablein drops out of Berkeley and travels to India and Nepal with her lover. Their brief getaway turns into a seven-year stay. There are times when I ask myself, Stablein writes, What am I am doing here? My answer: to paint, to study a culture; to uncover its secrets; to listen to the whisperings, the sacred oral traditions; to learn by heart the names and faces of deities so I can capture their images on paper and strive to imbue each image with the greatness of its namesake, its spiritual essence. Art is my muse and practice. The world is my palette, artists my teachers; art lives and breathes in the people I meet.
In the heyday of the '60s Stablein encounters luminaries of the American counterculture like Ram Dass whom she accompanies to interview HH, the Dalai Lama, on the spiritual value of LSD. Later, when the Indian police come to arrest Stablein for having an expired visa, Kalu Rinpoche quips The Buddha never had visas, and orders her to hide in a closet next to his tantric human bone costumes.
Includes photos and recipes.
Marilyn Stablein, writer, artist, and performer, is the author of seven books and a frequent performer of her work. Her art has been widely exhibited. She lives in the Hudson Valley and co-directs, with her husband, Alternative Books and The Uptown: A Performance Space in Kingston, NY.
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