Journeys of transformation: searching for no-self in western Buddhist travel narratives
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND AUTHOR'S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION: A LITERARY GENRE AND SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT SELF-TRANSFORMATION -- 1. THE ORIGINS OF THE GENRE: JOHN BLOFELD AND LAMA GOVINDA -- 2. PETER MATTHIESSEN'S THE SNOW LEOPARD AND NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER -- 3. IN A ZEN MONASTERY: AMBIGUOUS FAILUR...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York, NY Melbourne, VIC New Delhi Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ Buddhist
/ Asia
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| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
Doctrines
B Sunyata B Travel description B Spiritual Life Buddhism B Buddhism / RELIGION / Buddhist) / General (see also PHILOSOPHY |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781009106337 |
| Summary: | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND AUTHOR'S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION: A LITERARY GENRE AND SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT SELF-TRANSFORMATION -- 1. THE ORIGINS OF THE GENRE: JOHN BLOFELD AND LAMA GOVINDA -- 2. PETER MATTHIESSEN'S THE SNOW LEOPARD AND NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER -- 3. IN A ZEN MONASTERY: AMBIGUOUS FAILURE AND ENLIGHTENMENT -- 4. THOMAS MERTON AND CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH PILGRIMS IN BUDDHIST ASIA -- 5. WALKING THE DHARMA ON SHIKOKU AND IN INDIA -- 6. TREKKING AND TRACKING THE SELF IN TIBET -- 7. LIFE-CHANGING TRAVELS IN THE TIBETAN DIASPORA -- 8. ENCOUNTERS WITH THERAVADA BUDDHISM -- 9. SEARCHING FOR BUDDHISM AFTER MAO -- CONCLUSION: THEORIES OF NO-SELF, STORIES ABOUT UNSELFING, AND TRANSFORMATION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. "In 1973 Peter Matthiessen accompanied biologist George Schaller to Nepal in a study of Himalayan blue sheep and to search for the rare snow leopard. Matthiessen hoped, as well, to meet a revered Tibetan lama at an ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. Having recently lost his wife to cancer, and facing dangerous winter snowfalls and hazardous mountain terrain, he struggled with grief, regret, and fear while he attempted to better understand and practice Zen and Tibetan Buddhist teachings he had studied for several years. Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard (1978) describes this personal pilgrimage as a search for self-transformation and enlightenment. As he traced his journey toward these geographical and spiritual goals, he portrayed habits that made it difficult to change and intense experiences that disclosed the possibility of a radically different way of being"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1009098837 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009106337 |