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Coach says he was doing Chongg Ran, and that if you do a search on it, you won't find it, because it's passed down verbally and you have to go to a monastery to study it. Oh really? That's funny, because I actually remember a reference to Chongg Ran in my reading. Was it from an ancient Asian text, you ask? Why, no! It was in "The Book of the Dead," a thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the duo who wrote "Relic," if you remember that particular "monster unleashed in a museum" novel, which was made into a movie. I have all the Preston/Child books, they're not high literature but they're entertaining.

Interestingly enough, I also took Coach's challenge to google it, and on a page about the Preston/Child books I found this: "Although Chongg Ran certainly can have its real equivalent in Eastern religion, the practice with this particular name is an invention of the authors." Bwahahahaha, busted!

http://www.curledup.com/cabinet.htm

Protagonist FBI Agent Pendergast is a kind of formidable Sherlock Holmes type, with the added powers of a "superacute sense of hearing" and great wealth. He also knows the power of "Chongg Ran", an ancient Buddhist meditative practice that serves him well now and then. Pendergast can meditate so well it's almost as if he's having an out-of-body experience.

The Preston/Child books really are fun.