Absorbing, contemplative, and written in crystalline prose, "Silence and Noise" is an eye-opening portrait of what it means to grow up Buddhist in America.
Absorbing, contemplative, and written in crystalline prose, "Silence and Noise" is an eye-opening portrait of what it means to grow up Buddhist in America.
Ivan Richmond is a second-generation American Buddhist. The son of a former Zen priest, he grew up as a member of the Buddhist community of Green Gulch Farm, located just north of San Francisco. Today he lives in the Bay Area, where he practices and writes about Buddhism in everyday life.
