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A death on Diamond Mountain : a true story of obsession, madness, and the path to enlightenment

A death on Diamond Mountain : a true story of obsession, madness, and the path to enlightenment

Book 2015

"An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six ye...