All Is Change The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West

by Sutin, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780316741569
• ISBN10: 0316741566
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

In the tradition of Karen Armstrong, Jack Miles, andThomas Cahill comes a magisterial history of the coming of Buddhism tothe West.

Table of Contents

A Brief Preface	ix
ONE Buddhist India and the Classical and Early Christian West	1	(34)
TWO Syncretism Along the Silk Road	35	(24)
THREE The Jesuit Encounter with Buddhism	59	(48)
FOUR The "China Craze" and the Rise of the European Orientalists	107	(37)
FIVE From Herder to Heidegger: The Embedding of Buddhism in Western Philosophy	144	(27)
SIX The Rise of Theosophy and the "Great Game"	171	(31)
SEVEN Transcendentalists, Christian Missionaries, and Asian Buddhist Immigrants to America	202	(28)
EIGHT Japanese Zen Missions to the West	230	(25)
NINE Forbidden Tibet: Western Explorations and Fantasies	255	(19)
TEN Buddhism Takes Root in the West: The Christian Response and a Hesitant Ecumenism	274	(18)
ELEVEN Beat Zen and Crazy Wisdom	292	(26)
TWELVE The Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Buddhism in the West	318	(25)
Acknowledgments	343	(1)
Notes	344	(25)
Sources Consulted	369	(24)
Index	393