| Edition |
Third edition, revised and updated. |
| Description |
xvii, 434 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-425) and index. |
| Contents |
Attention: Preface to the assembly -- Turning the wheel -- East and west: the central region -- The mine of Sanskrit -- The restless pioneers -- Gold mountain and rice bowl country: the first Chinese and Japanese in America -- The white Buddhists: Colonel Olcott, Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society -- History is repeating itself: the World Parliament of Religions -- In the wake of the Parliament -- The Boston Buddhists: an interlude -- Ten holding the lotus to the rock: 1905-1945 -- The fifties: beat and square -- And round: the sixties -- When the iron bird flies -- In the land of the red man -- The other Zen and the pure land: the Chinese, Koreans, and Vietnamese -- The changing of the guard. |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0877735832 paperback $20.00 |
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9780877735830 paperback |
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0877736316 |
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9780877736318 |
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