RT Book
T1 Storied companions: cancer, trauma, and discovering guides for living in Buddhist narratives
A1 Derris, Karen
LA English
PP Somerville
PB Wisdom Publications
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1751553353
AB Foreword by  His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa  --  Introduction: Reading for Life  --  1. Reading Anew  -- 2. Putting Down Anger: Uncovering Fear -- 3. Oriented by Love -- 4. Living with Uncertainty: When Will I Die? -- 5. Receiving Care -- 6. Grieving for and with Living Loved Ones -- 7. Companionship Follows Absence -- 8. "Not Dead Yet" --  Acknowledgments and Thanks  -- Bibliography: Recommended Companions  -- About the Author.
AB "Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, Karen Derris-professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner-turned to books. Crashing into impermanence, "why me"is unhelpful, but "when"is crucial Reading stories and putting herself into the stories turns these ancient Buddhist stories into companions-into guides for the parts of life that don't have guides. Interweaves her memoir with stories from the Buddhist canon-interweaves herself into those stories-to find ways to live with the notion that she won't live, ways to cope even though, as she puts it, she is crashing into impermanence Honest, powerful, insightful, illuminating. Takes familiar stories and illuminates them, finding ways to make them immediate and real to her living experience. "With my diagnosis of stage IV brain cancer, I no longer observe the truth of impermanence from a critical, analytical distance. I am crashing into it, or it into me.""--
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN BQ4235
SN 978-1-61429-575-4
K1 Tibetan Buddhism
K1 Suffering : Religious aspects : Buddhism
K1 Life : Religious aspects : Buddhism
K1 Death : Religious aspects : Buddhism
K1 Buddhist stories
K1 Autobiografie