Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Jan Willis Introduction 1 John Whalen-Bridge & Gary Storhoff Part I. Widening the Stream: Literature as Transmission Chapter 1 The Transmission of Zen as Dual Discourse: Shaku Soen and Okakura Kakuzo 19 Jane Falk Chapter 2 Black American Buddhism: History and Representation 37 Linda Furgerson Selzer Part II. The New Lamp: Buddhism and Contemporary Writers Chapter 3 Some of the Dharma: The Human, the Heavenly, and the “Real Work” in the Writings of Gary Snyder 71 Allan Johnston Chapter 4 “Listen and Relate”: Buddhism, Daoism, and Chance in the Poetry and Poetics of Jackson Mac Low 89 Jonathan Stalling Chapter 5 A Deeper Kind of Truth: Buddhist Themes in Don DeLillo’s Libra 109 Gary Storhoff Part III. Speaking as Enlightenment: Interviews with Buddhist Writers Chapter 6 “The Present Moment Happening”: A Conversation with Gary Snyder about Danger on Peaks 133 Julia Martin Chapter 7 Embodied Mindfulness: Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston on Buddhism, Race, and Beauty 141 John Whalen-Bridge Chapter 8 Poetry and Practice at Naropa University 157 John Whalen-Bridge List of Contributors 185 Index 189 viii Contents ...