Adventures With The Buddha: A Personal Buddhism Reader,9780393059069

Adventures With The Buddha: A Personal Buddhism Reader

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ISBN13: 9780393059069
ISBN10: 0393059065
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-11-30
Publisher(s): W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

Jeffery Paine has assembled the breathtaking adventures of nine Westerners who traveled in China, Tibet, and Japan, in Nepal, India, and also America, chanced across Buddhism, and made it an integral part of their lives.

Author Biography

Jeffery Paine is the author of Re-enchantment and Father India and is the editor of The Poetry of Our World

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Buddhism as Life Adventure 15(14)
Part I The Era of the Heroic and Almost Magical
Introduction
29(6)
CHAPTER I. Tibet as It Once Was
Alexandra David-Neel
35(42)
CHAPTER II. A Himalayan Guru of the Old Style
Lama Anagarika Govinda
77(46)
CHAPTER III. The Lost World of Chinese Buddhism
John Blofeld
123(78)
CHAPTER IV. Taoism and/or Buddhism?
Peter Goullart
201(32)
CHAPTER V. Reality in a Zen Monastery
Janwillem van de Wetering
233(32)
Part II The Era of You and Me
Introduction
265(2)
CHAPTER VI. An African-American Woman's Journey into Buddhism
Jan Willis
267(50)
CHAPTER VII. In Search of Women's Wisdom
Tsultrim Allione
317(26)
CHAPTER VIII. Suffering and Its Partial Cure
Sharon Salzberg
343(24)
CHAPTER IX. The Diamond Sutra. The Diamond Business
Michael Roach
367(28)
Permissions 395(2)
Index 397

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