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Western Buddhist travel narratives are autobiographical accounts of a journey to a Buddhist culture. Dozens of such narratives have since the 1970s describe treks in Tibet, periods of residence in a Zen monastery, pilgrimages to Buddhist sites and teachers, and other Asian odysseys. The best known of these works is Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard; further reflections emerge from thirty writers including John Blofeld, Jan Van de Wetering, Thomas Merton, Oliver Statler, Robert Thurman, Gretel Ehrlich, and Bill Porter. The Buddhist concept of 'no-self' helps these authors interpret certain pivotal experiences of 'unselfing' and is also a catalyst that provokes and enables such events. The writers' spiritual memoirs describe how their journeys brought about a new understanding of Buddhist enlightenment and so transformed their lives. Showing how travel can elicit self-transformation, this book is a compelling exploration of the journeys and religious changes of both individuals and Buddhism itself.

Spiritual life --- Sunyata. --- Buddhism --- Buddhism. --- Doctrines. --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Buddhist philosophy --- Mādhyamika (Buddhism) --- Truth --- Emptiness (Sunyata) --- Nothingness (Sunyata) --- Relativity (Sunyata) --- Suññatā --- Void (Sunyata) --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism) --- Doctrines --- Religious aspects

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Apostasy --- Autobiography --- Ex-church members --- Case studies --- Comparative studies --- Religious aspects --- Christianity

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Consciousness --- Autobiography - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Conscience.