Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia

George Crane

An irresistible spiritual memoir of a Buddhist monk’s escape from his monastery just before it’s destruction by the Red Army. His master, old and frail, was unable to travel is left behind. Tsung Tsai (Ancient Wisdom) flees three thousand miles across China finally settling in Woodstock New York. 40 years later the monk, both poet and kung fu master, persuades his American neighbor George Crane to join him on dangerous Quixotic journey, traveling to a remote mountain cave in Mongolia, hoping to find his master’s bones. This book is a beautiful, eloquent poetic memoir, in the spirit of The Snow Leopard.