Maura O’Halloran d 10/22/1982. How a Catholic woman came to be honored as a Buddhist saint says something about the convergent paths of holiness and their capacity to meet in a spirit of compassionate awareness. (Icon: Wm Hart McNichols)
In 1979, Maura O’Halloran, a young woman from Ireland, applied for entry to a traditional Zen monastery in Tokyo—one of the few western women accepted in this very male world. After only 6 months her Roshi proclaimed with astonishment that she had achieved enlightenment.
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