A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack
by David R. Loy, Linda Goodhew (Author)
SUNY Series in Religious Studies
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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David R. Loy is the acclaimed author of The Great Awakening, The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons, and Money, Sex, War, Karma. He is qualified as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Zen.
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- Canonical title
- A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack
- People/Characters
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Important places
- Anduin
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History, General Nonfiction
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- 909.09821 — History & geography History World history Other Geographic Classifications Other Classifications Ocean And Sea Basins The West; the Atlantic region
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- CB245 .R68 — Auxiliary Sciences of History History of Civilization History of Civilization Civilization and race
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- English
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