Mindfulness as medicine : a story of healing body and spirit

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Label

Mindfulness as medicine : a story of healing body and spirit

Title remainder

a story of healing body and spirit

Statement of responsibility

Sister Dang Nghiem.

Creator

• Dang Nghiem, Sister, 1968-

Contributor

• NC Live e-Pub Central

Author

• Dang Nghiem, Sister, 1968-

Subject

• Buddhist nuns -- Vietnam -- Biography
• Healing -- Religious aspects | Buddhism
• Electronic books
• Meditation -- Therapeutic use
• Buddhist nuns -- United States -- Biography
• Lyme disease -- Patients | Religious life
• Dang Nghiem, Sister
• Suffering -- Religious aspects | Buddhism

Genre

• Biography
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"Before she became a Buddhist nun in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Dang Nghiem was a doctor. Born during the Tet Offensive and part of the amnesty for Amerasian children of the late 1970s, Dang Nghiem arrived in this country virtually penniless and with no home. She lived with three foster families, graduated high school with honors, earned two undergraduate degrees, and became a doctor. When the man she thought she'd spend her life with suddenly drowned, Sister Dang Nghiem left medicine and joined the monastic community of Thich Nhat Hanh. It is from this vantage point that Dang Nghiem writes about her journey of healing. Devastated by the diagnosis and symptoms of Lyme Disease, she realized that she was also reliving many of the unresolved traumas from earlier in her life. She applied both her medical knowledge and her advanced understanding and practice of mindfulness to healing. Through meditation she finally came to understand what it means to "master" suffering. In Mindfulness as Medicine Sister Dang Nghiem leads readers through her profound journey of healing and shares step-by-step directions for the techniques she used to transform her suffering"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

Dewey number

• 294.3/657092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

BQ950.A53

LC item number

A3 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries