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Author	Sutin, Lawrence, 1951-
Title	All is change : the two-thousand-year journey of Buddhism to the West / Lawrence Sutin.
Publication Info.	New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2006.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	294 S	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	x, 403 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-392) and index.
Contents	Buddhist India and the classical and early Christian West -- Syncretism along the Silk Road -- The Jesuit encounter with Buddhism -- The "China craze" and the rise of European Orientalists -- From Herder to Heidegger : the embedding of Buddhism in Western philosophy -- The rise of theosophy and the "great game" -- Transcendentalists, Christian missionaries, and Asian Buddhist immigrants to America -- Japanese Zen missions to the West -- Forbidden Tibet : Western explorations and fantasies -- Buddhism takes root in the West : the Christian response and a hesitant ecumenism -- Beat Zen and crazy wisdom -- The Dalai Lama and the transformation of Buddhism in the West.
Subject	Buddhism -- Western countries -- History.
	Buddhism -- History.
	Buddhism -- Relations -- Western countries.
	Western countries -- Relations -- Buddhism.
	Buddhism -- Influence.
Added Title	Two-thousand-year journey of Buddhism to the West
	2000 year journey of Buddhism to the West
ISBN	0316741566
	9780316741569
Standard No.	9780316741569

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