Buddhaland Brooklyn

I enjoy the story so much.  It is so realistic and I had a hard time pausing the story.  This story is about a Japanese villager who became a monk at the age 11.  12 days after he enters the temple of Everlasting Prayers, his family died in a fire of their family inn and home.  He loves to paint and teach painting in the temple.  He was asked to go to American and fell in love with his assistant who is like a hippie and has a PhD.  He asked her to marry him but she refused and ask him to take her in as a nun.  By the way, they are lovers too.  So the story is a little complicated yet has the sublime of Buddhism.  I like this story!