Walk for Peace: A 2,300-Mile Buddhist Journey Across America
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Walk for Peace: A 2,300-Mile Buddhist Journey Across America
Sale price
$14.99
Regular price $17.99
What happens when 24 monks walk 2,300 miles across America - barefoot, in silence, through rain, cold, injury, and uncertainty?
Walk for Peace is a powerful reflection on a real 112-day pilgrimage from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. - a journey of endurance, faith, humility, and human connection.
Led by Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākāra, the monks stepped onto the road with no guarantees - only intention. What began quietly within a small community slowly became a movement witnessed by tens of thousands. Strangers waited along highways. Churches opened their doors. Law enforcement officers offered badges in respect. A message of solidarity arrived from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
But this book is not only about distance.
It is about:
• Resilience in the face of physical pain
• Faith during uncertainty
• Leadership rooted in humility
• The quiet strength of spiritual discipline
• And the unexpected ways unity can emerge
You will witness the accident that tested the group.
You will meet Aloka - the loyal dog who walked beside the monks.
You will stand in Washington, D.C. as the capital welcomed a moving meditation.
And you will return home with them - where tears, gratitude, and devotion completed the circle.
Written in a calm and contemplative voice, Walk for Peace is not a dramatic retelling. It is a meditation in book form.
This is a story about monks.
But more than that, it is a story about what becomes possible when intention is pure and action is steady.
The path continues.
Walk for Peace is a powerful reflection on a real 112-day pilgrimage from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. - a journey of endurance, faith, humility, and human connection.
Led by Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākāra, the monks stepped onto the road with no guarantees - only intention. What began quietly within a small community slowly became a movement witnessed by tens of thousands. Strangers waited along highways. Churches opened their doors. Law enforcement officers offered badges in respect. A message of solidarity arrived from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
But this book is not only about distance.
It is about:
• Resilience in the face of physical pain
• Faith during uncertainty
• Leadership rooted in humility
• The quiet strength of spiritual discipline
• And the unexpected ways unity can emerge
You will witness the accident that tested the group.
You will meet Aloka - the loyal dog who walked beside the monks.
You will stand in Washington, D.C. as the capital welcomed a moving meditation.
And you will return home with them - where tears, gratitude, and devotion completed the circle.
Written in a calm and contemplative voice, Walk for Peace is not a dramatic retelling. It is a meditation in book form.
This is a story about monks.
But more than that, it is a story about what becomes possible when intention is pure and action is steady.
The path continues.