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A Buddhist Life in America
Author | : Joan Halifax |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Religious life |
ISBN | : 0809137852 |
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"Joan Halifax is known for her work with the dying. In this book she relates how she found a life of her own through her contact with traditional cultures and through association with people like Alan Lomax, Stanislav Grof and Joseph Campbell. At first a refuge from painful mental anguish, Buddhism became, in time, a place of refreshment and self-rediscovery for her. It also gave texture to her life of service, leading to the practice of "engaged Buddhism" that is attentive to the suffering world and a healing presence within it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
American Buddhism as a Way of Life
Author | : Gary Storhoff,John Whalen-Bridge |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2010-04-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438430959 |
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Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.
Razor Wire Dharma
Author | : Calvin Malone |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008-10-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780861719549 |
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Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how one man found Buddhism—and real, transformative meaning for his life—despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.
An American Buddhist Life
Author | : Charles S. Prebish |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1896559093 |
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Charles Prebish is world-renowned as a leading Buddhist scholar, with more than 20 books and 100 academic articles to his credit. Since his involvement with Buddhism began in 1965, he has had the privilege and honor to meet all of America's distinguished and visiting Buddhist teachers, to work with Buddhist scholars around the world, and to deepen the academic study of Buddhism. While his specialization is in monastic discipline, he is most widely known as the first scholar to seriously examine Buddhism in America as a distinct field of study. His pioneering efforts in this regard have had a profound impact on the study of Buddhism's history in North America, which is now one of the most active areas of global Buddhist research. Dr Prebish was Founding Co-Chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion in 1981, Founding Co-Publisher of the first online peer-reviewed journal in the field of religious studies - "The Journal of Buddhist Ethics," and five years later another online journal - "The Journal of Global Buddhism." He recently retired as Professor Emeritus from Utah State University, after a 35-year career teaching at Pennsylvania State University. "An American Buddhist Life" is his story, with reflection on where Buddhism in America has been and where it's going.
American Buddhism
Author | : Charles S. Prebish |
Publsiher | : Brooks/Cole |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UVA:X000138528 |
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The Life of Buddhism
Author | : Frank Reynolds,Jason A. Carbine |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-12-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520223373 |
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Bringing together 15 essays by international Buddhist scholars, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the life of Buddhism. The contributors focus on a range of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from New York to Tibet.
Be the Refuge
Author | : Chenxing Han |
Publsiher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781623175245 |
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A must-read for modern sanghas--Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms. Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse, inclusive, and intersectional communities that lie at the heart of American Buddhism. Be the Refuge is both critique and celebration, calling out the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting the complexity and nuance of their authentic stories and vital, thriving communities. Drawn from in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic, pan-Buddhist group, Be the Refuge is the first book to center young Asian American Buddhists' own voices. With insights from multi-generational, second-generation, convert, and socially engaged Asian American Buddhists, Be the Refuge includes the stories of trailblazers, bridge-builders, integrators, and refuge-makers who hail from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds. Championing nuanced representation over stale stereotypes, Han and the 89 interviewees in Be the Refuge push back against false narratives like the Oriental monk, the superstitious immigrant, and the banana Buddhist--typecasting that collapses the multivocality of Asian American Buddhists into tired, essentialized tropes. Encouraging frank conversations about race, representation, and inclusivity among Buddhists of all backgrounds, Be the Refuge embodies the spirit of interconnection that glows at the heart of American Buddhism.
Dixie Dharma
Author | : Jeff Wilson |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780807869970 |
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Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. In Dixie Dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding American Buddhism. Through the lens of a multidenominational Buddhist temple in Richmond, Virginia, Wilson explores how Buddhists are adapting to life in the conservative evangelical Christian culture of the South, and how traditional Southerners are adjusting to these newer members on the religious landscape. Introducing a host of overlooked characters, including Buddhist circuit riders, modernist Pure Land priests, and pluralistic Buddhists, Wilson shows how regional specificity manifests itself through such practices as meditation vigils to heal the wounds of the slave trade. He argues that southern Buddhists at once use bodily practices, iconography, and meditation tools to enact distinct sectarian identities even as they enjoy a creative hybridity.