Dinner with Buddha (CD-Audio)

from PJ817

Wonderful book. Walks you through the basics of Buddhism with a very gentle hand in a very real setting. I found it peaceful to read. Instilled in me a feeling of acceptance and awe for all I have, inside and out. I would definitely recommend this book.

from aslan7

Roland Merullo never disappoints. He is a very accomplished writer whose skill is ever evident no matter what the content. I loved his novels about Revere, and Vatican Waltz, Talk-Funny Girl, and A Little Love Story. That being said, Dinner with Buddha appeared to me to be more a thinly veiled ph...

from nmarti

As soon as I started reading, I realized how pleasing it would be to go back on the road with Otto and Rinpoche. It had been a few years since I read Breakfast with Buddha, and Lunch with Buddha had somehow escaped me. As this road trip begins, Otto is restless, grieving for his wife, and still s...

from St.CroixSue

Two men (one who is a serious and revered Mongolian monk) whose lives are connected through marriage end up on a road trip through the middle of the country. They have some good and insightful conversations that illustrate some of the main tenets of Buddhism. This book follows Merullo's, Breakfas...

from jnwelch

Back in 2008, Roland Merullo's non-mainstream novel Breakfast with Buddha was published. A Buddhist-centric novel is a rarity. Our bright but befuddled, astute but misguided, amiable but earnest protagonist is Otto Ringling. He's Dakota-born but now very New York City, an editor at a publishing h...