| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I : Wheel of the Dharma -- Man who woke up ; Silent sage ; Rebel saint ; Four noble truths ; Eightfold path ; Other core Buddhist concepts : nirvana, anatta, the three marks of existence, dependent arising, and emptiness ; Theravada and Mahayana : the great divide ; Vipassana : the Theravadin way of insight ; Zen Buddhism : the secret of the flower ; Tibetan Buddhism : the diamond thunderbolt ; Image of the crossing ; Confluence of Buddhism and Hinduism in India -- Part II : Wheel rolls West -- New migration ; America the Buddha full ; Adaptations : the new Buddhism ; America starts meditating I : the ways of Zen ; America starts meditating II : Tibetan Buddhism in exile ; America starts meditating III : Vipassana movement -- Afterword : Flowering of faith : Buddhism's pure land tradition. |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- History.
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| Added Author |
Novak, Philip.
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| ISBN |
0060506962 cloth $18.95 |
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