Thu, Feb 26
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Bruce Berlin, From Camden to Kathmandu
Bruce will be in conversation with Victor La Cerva, MD and co-founder of New Mexico Men's Wellness. "This revealing personal account from Bruce’s past offers inspiration for contemporary seekers. —Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, Author, The Soul Work of Justice: Four Movements of Contemplative Action.
Date, Time & Location
Feb 26, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Order From Camden to Kathmandu online ($19.80, paperback) from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
In this thought-provoking memoir, Bruce Berlin leaves behind a promising legal career to answer a deeper calling—one that can't be mapped or planned. From Camden to Kathmandu chronicles his passage from a budding attorney at the Legal Aid Society in New Jersey to a Buddhist meditator in a Tibetan monastery outside of Kathmandu. Berlin's story captures a life-defining quest for truth, transformation, and spiritual grounding.
Driven by the hungry ghost of spiritual longing, Berlin's path winds through Europe, overland across Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, to India and Nepal. Along the way, he experiences up close how people from different cultures live before he immerses himself in Buddhist meditation and confronts questions of identity and purpose under the tutelage of Lama Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
Much more than a travel memoir, Berlin's…