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BL
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589786
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b419005
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| Title & Author
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American Buddhism as a Way of Life\ edited by Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2010.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture
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1 online resource (xii, 217 p. )
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| ISBN
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9781438430959
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: 1438430957
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9781438430935 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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1438430930 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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9781438430942 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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1438430949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Foreward / Thomas A. Tweed -- Introduction : American Buddhism as a way of life / Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge -- The authenticity of Alan Watts / David L. Smith -- D.T. Suzuki, "Suzuki Zen," and the American reception of Zen Buddhism / Carl T. Jackson -- My lunch with Mihoko / Ellen Pearlman -- What can Buddhist no-self contribute to North American bioethics? / Michael C. Brannigan -- A contemporary North American Buddhist discussion of abortion / Rita M. Gross -- Touched by suffering : American pragmatism and engaged Buddhism / Judy D. Whipps -- Identity theft : stimulating Nirvana in postmodern America / John Kitterman -- Family life and spiritual kinship in American Buddhist communities / Charles S. Prebish -- Buddha loves me this I know : Nisei Buddhists in Christian America, 1889-1942 / Lori Pierce -- Analogue consciousness isn't just for faeries : healing the disjunction between theory and practice / Roger Corless -- "A dharma of place" : evolving aesthetics and cultivating community in an American Zen garden / Jeff Wilson.
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| Abstract
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Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.
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| Subject
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Buddhism and culture-- United States.
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Buddhism-- United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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294.30973
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Whalen-Bridge, John,1961-
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Storhoff, Gary,1947-
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Project Muse.
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