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9780861715824

Buddha at the Apocalypse : Awakening from a Culture of Destruction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780861715824

  • ISBN10:

    0861715829

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-04-20
  • Publisher: Wisdom Publications

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Summary

Timely and Audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world-and offers a clarion call to awaken from a pervasive culture of destruction into a natural, sustainable, and sane peace. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Kurt Spellmeyer is an award-winning teacher and scholar in the English department at Rutgers University. He was also authorized to teach Zen by Kangan Glenn Webb in 1985, and now leads the Cold Mountain Sangha in New Jersey. He is the author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century and several other books.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Prefacep. xi
Introduction: Welcome to the Apocalypsep. 1
World Despising
In the Beginning of Historyp. 19
orld Despising and the Origins of the Modern Worldp. 33
World Embracing
An End to History, an End to Sufferingp. 51
One Body-The Hidden Ground of Liberationp. 69
From Revolutionary Thinking to an Ecology of Mindp. 87
Images of Order in a Complex Worldp. 105
On and Off the Road of Historyp. 123
Conclusion; Buddha at the Apocalypsep. 139
Notesp. 151
Indexp. 167
About the Authorp. 179
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