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Beschreibung
In the tradition of Karen Armstrong, Jack Miles, and Thomas Cahill comes a magisterial history of the coming of Buddhism to the West.
How did Buddhism — long regarded as a nay-saying Eastern cult that rejected the notion of a transcendent God — come at last to have so pervasive an incluence in the West? In an age when the Dalai Lama has become a prominent figure on the bestseller lists, the impact on the West of key Buddhistic ideas such as karma and rebirth, the healing power of compassion, and the fundamental interconnectedness of all life cannot be overstated. The modern-day creation of a distinctly Western Buddhism is arguably the most significant spiritual development of our time — but as Lawrence Sutin masterfully demonstrates in All Is Change, the West's embrace of Buddhism happened not overnight, but over more than two millennia.
In the tradition of Karen Armstrong, Jack Miles, and Thomas Cahill comes a magisterial history of the coming of Buddhism to the West.
How did Buddhism — long regarded as a nay-saying Eastern cult that rejected the notion of a transcendent God — come at last to have so pervasive an incluence in the West? In an age when the Dalai Lama has become a prominent figure on the bestseller lists, the impact on the West of key Buddhistic ideas such as karma and rebirth, the healing power of compassion, and the fundamental interconnectedness of all life cannot be overstated. The modern-day creation of a distinctly Western Buddhism is arguably the most significant spiritual development of our time — but as Lawrence Sutin masterfully demonstrates in All Is Change, the West's embrace of Buddhism happened not overnight, but over more than two millennia.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Religion: Nichtchristliche Religionen
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780316741569
ISBN-10: 0316741566
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Sutin, Lawrence
Hersteller: Little, Brown
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 240 x 161 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Lawrence Sutin
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2006
Gewicht: 0,863 kg
Artikel-ID: 131118446