"Barbara O’Brien’s wide-ranging account of Zen history is conveyed with a master storyteller’s ability to keep the forest from getting lost in a myriad of trees. Wearing her scholarship lightly, she blends just the right amount of skepticism about her hagiographic sources with a deep appreciation for the Dharma." — Barry Magid, author of
Nothing Is Hidden and
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness Order here!
For the Irish, after the Vikings, it was always the British who were the enemy.
Try Russian/Ukrainian sad songs.
If it ain’t the Khan’s, or the Tartars, or the VIkings, or the Mongols, coming, it’s the Poles, the Swede’s, the Germans, the French, etc.