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Title: a jouney home
Review: Some reviewers complain about the personal aspects of this book. But there is nothing wrong to blend a personal story into a travel account, is there? To me, the most compelling part of the book, is exactly the fusion, or the divergion, of the monk's and the author's journeys. There are other books devoted to historical or geographical facts, if that is what you are after. What Bernstein describes in the book, the pulls between going-home and leaving-home, pertinent to himself, is also touchingly universal. Leave home we must,like Huan Tsang and Bernstein, in order to come home to find meaning and wisdom in our seemingly mundane lives.
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