Stopping At Hell's Gate
Claude AnShin Thomas, a Vietnam veteran and founder of the Zaltho Foundation, in his autobiography, At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace, offers a practice for addressing anger. Scarred by his service in Vietnam, Thomas, after meeting Thich Nhat Hanh, began to practice Zen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Hawaii Press
[2019]
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Buddhist Christian studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 39, Pages: 3-18 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas, Claude 1947-, At hell's gate
/ Zen Buddhism
/ Rage
/ Coping
/ Non-violence
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism |
| Further subjects: | B
Claude AnShin Thomas
B anger in Buddhist thought B righteous anger B Vietnam War B Aristotle |
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| Summary: | Claude AnShin Thomas, a Vietnam veteran and founder of the Zaltho Foundation, in his autobiography, At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace, offers a practice for addressing anger. Scarred by his service in Vietnam, Thomas, after meeting Thich Nhat Hanh, began to practice Zen Buddhism. In his work, he addressed anger as one of the seeds in our consciousness and offers a six-step process for addressing anger as habit energy: Study?Stop?Recognize?Embrace?Gain Insight?Transform. In this essay, I look at the problem of anger in Western and in Buddhist thought and turn to Thomas's movement through anger to nonviolence, emphasizing that it is through practice that we learn to transform anger so that we can stop before entering Hell's Gate. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-9472 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Buddhist Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/bcs.2019.0001 |