03756nam 2200673Ia 450 991082500490332120200520144314.01-4384-2659-31-4416-1762-010.1515/9781438426594(CKB)1000000000786598(SSID)ssj0000145769(PQKBManifestationID)11160360(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000145769(PQKBWorkID)10157201(PQKB)10477725(MiAaPQ)EBC3408164(Au-PeEL)EBL3408164(CaPaEBR)ebr10588712(OCoLC)434477012(DE-B1597)684203(DE-B1597)9781438426594(EXLCZ)99100000000078659820080807d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe emergence of Buddhist American literature /edited by John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff ; foreword by Mazine Hong Kingston and afterword by Charles Johnson1st ed.Albany SUNY Pressc2009xii, 255 pSUNY series in Buddhism and American cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4384-2653-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Literature as vehicle: transmission and transformation. The emptiness of patterned flux : Ernest Fenollosa's Buddhist essay "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry" / Jonathan Stalling -- Gary Snyder's selective way to Cold Mountain : domesticating Han Shan / Yuemin He -- John Giorno : Buddhism, poetry, and transgression / Marcus Boon -- Buddhadharma and poetry without credentials / Michael Heller -- Zen, Vajrayana, and the avant-garde : a pluralistic poetics. Finger pointing at the moon : Zen and the poetry of Philip Whalen / Jane Falk -- Keeping vision alive : the Buddhist stillpoint in the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / Erik Mortenson -- Illumination through the cracks : the melting down of conventional socio-religious thought and practice in the work of Gary Snyder / Tom Lavazzi -- The American poetic diamond vehicle : Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman re-work Vajrayana Buddhism / Jane Augustine -- Widening the circle : Buddhism and American writers of color. Buddhism, Chinese religion, and the ceremony of writing : an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston / John Whalen-Bridge -- A bridge between two worlds : crossing to America in Monkey bridge / Hanh Nguyen and R.C. Lutz -- 'Opening the hand of thought' : the meditative mind in Charles Johnson's Dr. King's refrigerator and other bedtime stories / Gary Storhoff.Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.American literatureBuddhist authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureBuddhist influencesBuddhism in literatureBuddhism and literatureUnited StatesAmerican literatureBuddhist authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureBuddhist influences.Buddhism in literature.Buddhism and literature810.9/382943Whalen-Bridge John1961-1595452Storhoff Gary1947-1595453MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825004903321The emergence of Buddhist American literature3916421UNINA