TY  - BOOK
AU  - Storhoff,Gary
AU  - Whalen-Bridge,John
TI  - American Buddhism as a way of life
T2  - SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture
SN  - 9781438430935 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - BQ732 .A44 2010
U1  - 294.30973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - United States
KW  - Buddhism and culture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Thomas A. Tweed -- Introduction : American Buddhism as a way of life / Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge -- The authenticity of Alan Watts / David L. Smith -- D.T. Suzuki, "Suzuki Zen," and the American reception of Zen Buddhism / Carl T. Jackson -- My lunch with Mihoko / Ellen Pearlman -- What can Buddhist no-self contribute to North American bioethics? / Michael C. Brannigan -- A contemporary North American Buddhist discussion of abortion / Rita M. Gross -- Touched by suffering : American pragmatism and engaged Buddhism / Judy D. Whipps -- Identity theft : stimulating Nirvana in postmodern America / John Kitterman -- Family life and spiritual kinship in American Buddhist communities / Charles S. Prebish -- Buddha loves me this I know : Nisei Buddhists in Christian America, 1889-1942 / Lori Pierce -- Analogue consciousness isn't just for faeries : healing the disjunction between theory and practice / Roger Corless -- "A dharma of place" : evolving aesthetics and cultivating community in an American Zen garden / Jeff Wilson
N2  - Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context
ER  -