All Is Change The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West

Name: All Is Change The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West
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ISBN: 9780316741569

ISBN-10: 0316741566

ISBN-13: 9780316741569

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lawrence Sutin

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A history of Buddhism's journey and entry into the Western world explores such topics as the early exchanges between the classical Greeks and the Buddhists of India, the influence of Buddhism on Western philosophers, and the current fascination with the Dalai Lama.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 8/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English




Buddhist India and the classical and early Christian West



Syncretism along the Silk Road



The Jesuit encounter with Buddhism



The "China craze" and the rise of the European orientalists



From Herder to Heidegger : the embedding of Buddhism in western philosophy



The rise of theosophy and the "great game"



Transcendentalists, Christian missionaries, and Asian Buddhist immigrants to America



Japanese Zen missions to the west



Forbidden Tibet : western explorations and fantasies



Buddhism takes root in the West : the Christian response and a hesitant ecumenism



Beat Zen and crazy wisdom



The Dalai Lama and the transformation of Buddhism in the west