Vacationing peacefully and cheaply at a buddhist retreat
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, October, 2002 by Susan Seliger
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From paperback best-sellers (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has spawned Zen-and-the-Art-of-Nearly-Anything-You-Can-Name) to popular films (Little Buddha, Kundun, Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet), from TV ads (can a guy meditating in a yoga class really sell online stock-trading?) to rock-and-roll classics (Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner, Jerry Garcia, the Beastie Boys), from front-page news (the awarding of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama) to celebrity gossip (Courtney Love schlepping Kurt Cobain's ashes to a Buddhist shrine in India), Buddhism has been inching its way into everyday American life.
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"Ten years ago there were, at most, 40 Buddhist retreats in the United States and Canada. Now there are two or three times that many," says Jeff Wilson, Web columnist for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (a quarterly magazine) and author of ...
