Fire Monks: Wildfires in California
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
English - July 20, 2011 03:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsArts interview entrepreneurship health business leadership news comedy entrepreneur culture politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When a massive wildfire blazed across California in June 2008, five monks risked their lives to save Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Pyne-- wildfire expert and the country's pre-eminent fire historian-- and Busch-- author and longtime Zen student-- discuss the ways of wildfires in the West and what it means to meet a crisis with full presence of mind.
Program one of four, co-presented with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West