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Index 189 Abbott, Keith, 13, 158, 168; Next Door to Samsara, 168 Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism, 43 Adiele, Faith, 43; Meeting Faith, 43 affirmative action, 61 African American literature, 6, 11, 38, 46, 48, 61 Ambedkar, B.R., 51–52 American Buddhism as a Way of Life, 2 American Buddhism, 1–3, 6, 38, 42–46, 64, 174; black dharma, 6, 11, 38, 43, 48, 61; Black Power, 58, 59, 60, 61; race, racism and, 6, 11, 24, 31, 37, 40, 42–43, 44, 45, 48–49, 63, 141–48, 178 Anagarika Dharmapala, 39, 41, 47, 62, 65 anatman, 7–9, 11 anatta, 154, 155 anicca, 154 Aquinas, Thomas, 154 Ashbury, John, 163 Augustine, 154 Baker Roshi, 170 Baldoquin, Hilda Gutierrez, 43; Dharma, Color, and Culture, 43 Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 41; Yugen, 41 Bateson, Gregory, 182 Baumann, Martin, “The Dharma Has Come West: A Survey of Recent Studies and Sources,” 42 Beats, the, 2, 11, 144, see also Burroughs, Corso, di Prima, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Kyger, and Waldman bell hooks, 6, 38, 41, 43–45, 47, 49, 57–58, 60, 61–62; Rock My Soul, 49; “Surrendered,” 61; “The King We Left Behind,” 57; “Waking Up,” 45 Bhagavad-Gita, 152 Blake, William, 127 Bodhidharma, 19, 20, 21, 27 bodhisattva, xiii, 22, 25, 55, 64, 73, 81, 134, 152 Boyd, Merle Kodo, 44, 45, 50, 57, 58; “A Child of the South in Long Black Robes,” 44 Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama, Sanskrit; Siddhatha Gotama, Pali), 3, 4, 48, 54, 57, 63, 64, 65, 72, 73, 148, 151 Buddhism, see also American Buddhism, Chan, Hua-yen, Kegon, Pure Land, Theravada, Vajrayana, and Zen Burroughs, William, 103, 149, 163 Bye, Reed, 13, 158, 161 Cage, John, 12, 90, 96, 99, 103, 157, 182 Chan Buddhism (Chinese), 93–94, 106 Chappell, David, 42, 43, 61 China Men, 142 (see Kingston, Maxine Hong) Chögyam Trungpa, 12, 149, 157–65, 167, 176–77, 182–83 Choyin Rangdrol, 43, 46, 48, 49, 50; “Black Buddha: Bringing the Tradition Home,” 48 Christianity, 4–5, 6, 9, 11, 20–22, 25–26, 30, 40, 41, 46–47, 56, 63, 122, 153–55, 178–79 190 Index Chuang-Tzu, 7, 72, 74, 76, 84, 86; Autumn Flood, 7, 72 Civil Rights movement, and, 6, 40, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 144–45, 147, 178 Clark, Tom, 12, 14, 158, 161, 167, 182–83; Great Naropa Poetry Wars, 12, 158 Coburn, Thomas, 182 Coleman, James, 42, 44; “The New Buddhism,” 42, 44 Confucianism, 63 Conner, Marc, 141, 153 Cooper, Carol, 47, 49 Corso, Gregory, 163 Counter-culture, 13, 73, 81, 173 Cowart, David, 111, 126–27 Creeley, Robert, 167, 181 Daoism (Taoism), 89, 90, 91, 93, 96, 102, 103, 106 Dass, Ram, 182 DeLillo, Don, 9, 109–14, 117, 119–23, 125, 126–28; Libra, 9, 109–14, 117, 121, 126–28; Running Dog, 111; The Names, 109; White Noise, 119 dependent co-origination, 112, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122 (see partityasamutpada) detachment, 119 Devadatta, 12, 158 dharani, 175, 183 dharma, 3, 4, 6–7, 11, 13, 38, 41–44, 47–48, 50–51, 57, 61, 63, 71–73, 84–85, 90, 101, 105–6, 151, 153–54, 159, 162, 164, 172, 183 Dharma, Color, and Culture, 43 dhyana (see meditation) di Prima, Diane, 12, 157, 163, 172 Dōgen, 4, 30, 33, 85, 134, 135, 137, 138; Fukanzazengi, 30; “Mountains and Waters Sutra,” 85 Dorn, Ed, 167, 183; Gunslinger, 183 Duchamp, Marcel, 89, 96, 103 dukkha, 110, 154 Duncan, Robert, 172 Eliot, T.S., 84 Ellis, Lawrence, 51, 62 Ellis, Trey, 44 emptiness, 28, 54, 86, 90, 94–96, 98, 150, 173 Engaged Buddhism in the West, 43, 51 Engaged Buddhism, 6, 38, 43, 48, 50–55, 64 enlightenment, 4, 11–13, 22, 25–26, 48, 53, 55, 63–64, 82–83, 94, 100–2, 106, 109, 114, 123, 149–51, 155–56, 174, 183 (see also ‘liberation’) environmentalism, 10, 14, 74–75, 77, 80–81; ethnopoetics, and 86 Epstein, Mark, 13; Open to Desire, 13 ethnopoetics, 86 Falk, Jane, 19–30 feminism, 3, 90, 145 Fenollosa, Ernest, 2, 31, 33; “The Coming Fusion of East and West,” 33 Fields, Rick, 1, 31, 39, 104, 160, 176; How the Swans Came to the Lake, 1, 160 Foucault, Michel, 173 Ginsberg, Allen, 2, 12, 41, 93, 101, 106, 125, 157, 159, 163; “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” 106 Giorno, John, 13 Guenther, Herbert, 182 Hadot, Pierre, Philosophy as a Way of Life, 3 Halifax, Joan, 171...

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