About the Author

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet, scholar and peace activist. During the war in Vietnam, he worked tirelessly for reconciliation between North and South Vietnam. His courageous efforts to generate peace moved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. During the war, he founded the Van Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon and the School of Youth for Social Service. Forced into exile because of his efforts to negotiate peace in Vietnam, he continued his activism, rescuing boat people and helping to resettle Vietnamese refugees abroad. Thich Nhat Hanh is the author of many books including such important classics as Peace is Every Step and Anger. He lives Plum Village, his meditation center in France, and travels worldwide, leading retreats on the art of mindful living. Visit the author at www.plumvillage.org.

Reviews

"One of our most treasured spiritual teachers tells a story that will touch your heart. So beautiful."--Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love
"Thich Nhat Hanh has given us a luminous book. The Novice is both instructive and haunting. Its heroine holds a lantern for all seekers."--Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way
"Among Buddhist leaders influential in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh ranks second only to the Dalai Lama."--New York Times
"Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity."--Martin Luther King, Jr., in nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize
"Thich Nhat Hanh is a real poet."--Robert Lowell
"Thich Nhat Hanh is more my borther than many who are nearer to me in race and nationality, because he and I see the exact same way."--Thomas Merton
"Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth."--His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha."--Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying