Blaming Japhy Rider: Memoir of a Dharma Bum Who Survived

by Philip A. Bralich

Book Overview

Inspired by and responding to Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums, this memoir details the psychological and spiritual triumph over severe psychological difficulties caused by a series of traumas endured in the Peace Corps in West Africa in 1978. Surveying the spiritual landscape of America through the seventies to the present in Zen, Tibetan Buddhist, New Age and Christian movements, this memoir describes the journey of author Philip A. Bralich's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452540519
• ISBN13: 9781452540511
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"