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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Carney, Scott, 1978- author.     Subjects     Thorson, Ian, 1974-2012 -- Death and burial.     Roach, Michael, 1952-     McNally, Christie.     Diamond Mountain Retreat Center.     Buddhism -- United States -- Psychology.     Religious addiction -- Buddhism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Carney, Scott, 1978- author.       by title:      A death on Diamond M...         MARC Display

A death on Diamond Mountain [electronic resource] : a true story of obsession, madness, and the path to enlightenment / Scott Carney. by Carney, Scott, 1978- author. New York, New York : Penguin Group, c2015. Subjects Thorson, Ian, 1974-2012 -- Death and burial.   Roach, Michael, 1952-   McNally, Christie.   Diamond Mountain Retreat Center.   Buddhism -- United States -- Psychology.   Religious addiction -- Buddhism. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=B0AF2B1D-C3CE-4678-8561-F5BA0941D0B0 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/death-on-diamond?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{B0AF2B1D-C3CE-4678-8561-F5BA0941D0B0}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780698186293 (electronic bk.) 069818629X (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xxi, 277 pages) Requests:  0 Summary:  "An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson's death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations-and undertake it in illusory ways-can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson's wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died."--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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