Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West - Hardcover

Paine, Jeffery

 
9780393019681: Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393019683 ISBN 13: 9780393019681
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2004

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The colorful tale of the successful flowering of an obscure, ancient Eastern sect in the modern world. In a single generation, Tibetan Buddhism developed from the faith of a remote mountain people, associated with bizarre, almost medieval, superstitions, to perhaps the most rapidly growing and celebrity-studded religion in the West. Disaffected with other religious traditions yet searching for meaning, huge numbers of Americans have found their way to the wisdom of Tibetan lamas in exile. Earthy, humorous, commonsensical, and eccentric, these flamboyant teacherslarger-than-life characters like Lama Yeshe and Chogyma Trungpaproved to be charismatic and gifted ambassadors for their ancient religion. So did two Western women, born in Brooklyn and London's East End, whose homegrown religious intuitions turned out to be identical with the most sophisticated Tibetan teachings, revealing them to be reincarnated lamas. With great flair for both the sublime and the human, Jeffrey Paine narrates in page-turning, richly informative fashion how Tibetan Buddhismrarified and sensual, mystical and commonsensicalbecame the ideal religion for a "post-religious" age. 15 photographs.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeffrey Paine is the former editor of the Wilson Quarterly, the author of Father India, and the editor of The Poetry of Our World. He lives in Washington, DC.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393019683
ISBN 13 
9780393019681
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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