Many Petals of the Lotus: Five Asian Buddhist Communities in Toronto Cathy Ciaramitaro Road to Valour is the

Road to Valour is the first book ever written about Bartali in English and the only book written in any language to fully explore the scope of Bartali’s wartime work

questioned for nine hours

For over two centuries

her family will not permit a full post-mortem autopsy

As their lives separate and diverge

Many Petals of the Lotus: Five Asian Buddhist Communities in Toronto Cathy Ciaramitaro Road to Valour is theToronto sustains a remarkable variety of distinct Buddhist communities. Over sixty Buddhist temples and associations represent a diversity of ethnic, national, and linguistic identities. Here, for the first time, is a rigorous, richly detailed, comparative examination of several groups within five Asian Buddhist communities: Japanese Canadian, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Chinese. With an intimate knowledge of her subject matter, McLellan