| All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West Contributor(s): Sutin, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316741566 ISBN-13: 9780316741569 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2006 Annotation: In this account of the 2,000-year transmission of Buddhism to the West, Sutin introduces the seekers, sages, explorers, and charlatans through whom Buddhism has become a part of the cultural landscape in the West. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) - Religion | History |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006040824 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.32" W x 9.3" (1.46 lbs) 403 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the tradition of Karen Armstrong, Jack Miles, and Thomas Cahill comes a magisterial history of the coming of Buddhism to the West. How did Buddhism -- long regarded as a nay-saying Eastern cult that rejected the notion of a transcendent God -- come at last to have so pervasive an incluence in the West? In an age when the Dalai Lama has become a prominent figure on the bestseller lists, the impact on the West of key Buddhistic ideas such as karma and rebirth, the healing power of compassion, and the fundamental interconnectedness of all life cannot be overstated. The modern-day creation of a distinctly Western Buddhism is arguably the most significant spiritual development of our time -- but as Lawrence Sutin masterfully demonstrates in All Is Change, the West's embrace of Buddhism happened not overnight, but over more than two millennia. |