title: A Monastery Within: Tales from the Buddhist Path
author:  Gil Fronsdal 
description: Gil Fronsdal is the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. He has been teaching since 1990 and has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma and trained with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. He was also ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center and received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman. Gil has a PhD in Relgious Studies from Stanford University. Gils teachings can be found at www.audiodharma.org and www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/. His translation of the "Dhammapada", an important collection of Buddhist verses, is published by Shambhala Publications. He is the author of "The Issue at Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice." He is a husband and a father of two sons.
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  Marcus Vincent ![](../images/00001.jpeg)Richards II
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The King’s Mirror
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Prologue](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc53214360). [Solum & Lunos
  5](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc53214361)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc53214362): [Monastery Woes
  8](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc53214363)
  
  
  [Chapter 2:](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc53214364) [Transgressions of the
  Past](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc53214365)
  
  
  [Chapter 3:](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc53214366) [King
  Freanald](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc53214367)
  
  
  [Chapter 4: ](part0000