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Buddhism teaches that to become happy, greed, ill-will, and delusion must be transformed into their positive counterparts: generosity, compassion, and wisdom. The history of the West, like all histories, has been plagued by the consequences of greed, ill-will, and delusion. A Buddhist History of the West investigates how individuals have tried to ground themselves to make themselves feel more real. To be self-conscious is to experience ungroundedness as a sense of lack, but what is lacking has been understood differently in different historical periods. Author David R. Loy examines how the understanding of lack changes at historical junctures and shows how those junctures were so crucial in the development of the West.

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Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
0791452603
ISBN-13
9780791452608
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1934123

Product Key Features

Book Title
Buddhist History of the West : Studies in Lack
Author
David R. Loy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, Buddhist, General, Eastern
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Psychology, Religion, History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Cb245.R68 2002
Reviews
"A polymath's tour through intellectual and social history, David Loy's Buddhist retelling goes far in revealing the historically conditioned limitations of many dominant Western terms, metaphors, and assumptions. By reinterpreting greed, ill will, and delusion as structural rather than personal problems, Loy offers a compassionate account of ways that we make ourselves unhappy and a trenchant critique of market capitalism's manipulation of these habits of mind." -- The Journal of Asian Studies "...his study of European history from what he calls the perspective of lack reveals astonishing yet previously barely highlighted insights into European thought ... Loy's book is filled with observations and indictments of common myths that are not only provocative in nature but sure to challenge many of the presuppositions that the proponents of the so-called Western World hold dear." -- Philosophy East & West "This book expands the dialog, enlarges the vocabulary, takes instruction from other cultural traditions, and throws light on our own Occidental problems. I like its clarity in a territory that is of critical importance and is intrinsically difficult. The book has to do with ways of coming to a better understanding of civilization, history, politics, and our own human psyches, and how it is that certain sets of problems--war and exploitation among them--keep arising. David Loy is opening up new territory that is of great value. He is a very exciting thinker." -- Gary Snyder, author of The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Buddhist Perspective 1. The Lack of Freedom 2. The Lack of Progress 3. The Renaissance of Lack 4. The Lack of Modernity 5. The Lack of Civil Society 6. Preparing for Something That Never Happens 7. The Religion of the Market Afterword: The Future of Lack Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-049415
Dewey Decimal
909/.09821
Series
Suny Series in Religious Studies
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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