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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Huston Smith; Philip Novak |
| ISBN: | 0060730676 9780060730673 |
| OCLC Number: | 57307393 |
| Description: | xiii, 242 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. The wheel of the Dharma. The man who woke up ; The silent sage ; The rebel saint ; The four noble truths ; The 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 ; The image of the crossing ; The confluence of Buddhism and Hinduism in India -- pt. II. The wheel rolls west. The 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: The Vipassana movement -- Afterword. The flowering of faith: Buddhism's pure land tradition. |
| Responsibility: | Huston Smith and Philip Novak. |
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