Hidden Buddha: Lama Rinzen in the Hungry Ghost Realm by Jim Ringel (Lama Rinzen Mysteries #2) | Author Guest Post, Spotlight, Giveaway
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Hidden Buddha: Lama Rinzen in the Hungry Ghost Realm by Jim Ringel
Series: Lama Rinzen Mysteries #2
Published by Black Bee Publishing on 10/18/2022
Genres: Adult Fiction 18+, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 308
Lama Rinzen finds herself reborn as a doctor into the Hungry Ghost Realm in a haunted hospital on Colorado’s eastern plains. It’s an unfriendly place. The patients do not respect her, the staff ignores her, and there’s rumors of ghosts in the hospital.
Rinzen is afraid of ghosts. She is not even sure they truly exist. Instead, she focuses on learning the Hungry Ghost Realm’s lesson so she might understand what the Buddha means when he talks about emptiness. If she can only learn that, she will escape the hospital and progress along her path to enlightenment.
But nine-year-old patient Claudia says the ghosts are real, and that they are here to trap Rinzen so she might never learn and never escape the hospital. Not in this lifetime, and not in any future lifetimes either.
How can the lama learn without seeing the things she denies?
Maybe that’s what the Buddha means when he talks about emptiness. These little bits of ourselves we keep suppressed and hidden and never admit to?
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About Jim Ringel
Jim Ringel is an unconventional Buddhist who writes the Lama Rinzen mysteries as part of his own spiritual path.
Each book in the series finds the lama reborn into one of the six Buddhist Realms on a search for deeper understanding along the path toward Nirvana.
Jim practices Zen, skis, hikes, bikes, and visits brew pubs throughout Colorado seeking the Buddha in everyday life.
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Guest Post from Jim Ringel, Author of Hidden Buddha
If you were stuck on a deserted island, what three books would you want with you?
Well, I suppose if I was to be stuck on an island, I should want a survival guide, a cookbook, or a How-to-Build-a-Sailboat manual. But realistically speaking, I would probably see it as a vacation and would want some books I’ve been meaning to get to.
Of course, that means I’d be bringing books I haven’t read yet. That’s a gamble. I could get stuck out there and realize all the books I brought stink. So I would probably bring at least one book that I have read and enjoyed and know I would enjoy reading a second time.
That book would be Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. I loved it, and I know I would enjoy reading it a second time because, in fact, I have already read it a second time. In fact, I have read it three times. That’s how much I love this book.
So much that I would gladly enjoy being stranded with it a fourth time.
Why?
First of all, because it’s exquisitely written. McCarthy’s language is a writer’s treat. It’s lyrical, packs a rhythm, shocks, and seduces. There is no better writer for crafting long languid sentences that reel a reader in like a Siren calling to Ulysses.
Second, it’s brutal. It tosses the reader around in a swirl of entrancing disorientation. It’s touching in its depiction of evil and exquisite as a tale of survival. A run-amok gang of vigilantes roaming the pre-Civil War American southwest in search of scalps, loot, and meaninglessness. Isn’t that what being deserted on an island is supposed to feel like? Might as well embrace it. Better than reading something schmaltzy that might make me homesick.
So, yeah. I would bring Blood Meridian.
Next, I’d bring Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Why? Because it’s topical. Why does Russia hate Ukraine so much? I bought this book because Applebaum’s a genius who knows about a world I do not understand. So I feel like I’d be sitting at the foot of a really learned teacher soaking all she could tell me.
The other good thing about reading Red Famine, as well as Blood Meridian, is that they are both long. Over 400 and 500 pages, respectively. I can almost imagine rescuers showing up and me begging them No, no, please come back. I am only halfway through the first book. If you have any bacon, I will take that. Otherwise, come back in a week or so, thank you very much.
The third book, of course that I’d bring is Bob Ainsworth’s Conned: A Harry Bartlett Mystery. It’s about a tax professional like Bob was before retirement, who unearths white-collar crimes. The book’s funny, it’s suspenseful, Harry’s a hoot, and it takes place in Massachusetts. I have not read it yet, but I know these things because Bob told me, and he’s a high school friend, and I always enjoy supporting new writers.
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This sounds like an interesting book
Sounds like an amazing read.
I look forward to reading this.
Thanks so much for stopping by, Shelly!
Sounds like a very good but spooky read.
I thought it put off a spooky vibe, too!
This is an imaginative connection of sci fi with mystery, a great premise that is a author’s vehicle as much as a plot.
Great description, Lou! Thanks so much for stopping by today.
Great guest post, Jim! Hidden Buddha sounds like an excellent book to read!
Thanks for sharing it with me and have a terrific day!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Eva.