Karate-Do and Zen: An inquiry by Jorge H. Aigla

Karate-Do and Zen: An inquiry by Jorge H. Aigla *** Spiritual Book Gift with this order *** Review"Mr. Aigla has written a book that is informative and balanced. It is replete with specific references to the central writers of the Western intellectual tradition, and is written virtually in the form of a continuous conversation with them...Karate-Do and Zen is unusual among books in the martial arts in its combination of scientific learning and detachment, on the one hand, and openness to experiences that do not yield to reductive analysis, on the other." -- The St. John's ReviewAbout the AuthorJorge H.-Aigla was born in 1954 in Mexico City, where he grew up and began his martial arts practice under Dai Won Moon in 1970. He received a B.S. in Biology from St. Mary's College of California in 1975 and an M.D. from the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center in 1979. Dr. Aigla has been a Research Fellow for the American Heart Association and for the Cancer Research Institu