A Buddhist history of the West : studies in lack / / David R. Loy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820616303321
• Autore: Loy David <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2002; ©2002
• ISBN: 0-7914-8912-4; 0-585-47621-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages)
• Collana: SUNY series in religious studies
• Disciplina: 909/.09821
• Soggetti: Civilization, Western - Psychological aspects; Civilization, Western - Philosophy; Civilization, Western - Classical influences; Buddhist philosophy; Buddhism - Doctrines; Self (Philosophy); Identity (Psychology); Self-consciousness (Awareness)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Lack of Freedom -- The Lack of Progress -- The Renaissance of Lack -- The Lack of Modernity -- The Lack of Civil Society -- Preparing for Something That Never Happens -- The Religion of the Market -- Afterword: The Future of Lack -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Buddhism teaches that to become happy, greed, ill-will, and delusion must be transformed into their positive counterparts: generosity, compassion, and wisdom. The history of the West, like all histories, has been plagued by the consequences of greed, ill-will, and delusion. A Buddhist History of the West investigates how individuals have tried to ground themselves to make themselves feel more real. To be self-conscious is to experience ungroundedness as a sense of lack, but what is lacking has been understood differently in different historical periods. Author David R. Loy examines how the understanding of lack ; changes at historical junctures and shows how those junctures were so crucial in the development of the West.