Adventures with the Buddha - Paine, Jeffery
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Many books on Buddhism will edify you, but will they entertain you? Here, finally, is a book that yields an understanding of Buddhism; not by its metaphysics or rituals but through real characters and true stories as dramatic as those in the most imaginative novel. Jeffery Paine has assembled the breathtaking adventures of nine Westerners who traveled in China, Tibet, and Japan, in Nepal and India, and in that new Buddhist frontier, America, chanced across Buddhism, and made it an integral part of their lives. Through vivid travel writing and gripping human tales, the reader is exposed not…mehr

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Many books on Buddhism will edify you, but will they entertain you? Here, finally, is a book that yields an understanding of Buddhism; not by its metaphysics or rituals but through real characters and true stories as dramatic as those in the most imaginative novel. Jeffery Paine has assembled the breathtaking adventures of nine Westerners who traveled in China, Tibet, and Japan, in Nepal and India, and in that new Buddhist frontier, America, chanced across Buddhism, and made it an integral part of their lives. Through vivid travel writing and gripping human tales, the reader is exposed not just to the theory of Buddhist philosophy and practice but also to what it looks like from the inside. From enchanting, now-lost kingdoms in Asia to the American workplace where a practitioner is profitably applying the dharma, Adventures with the Buddha is a tour de force across nations, generations, and, ultimately, spirituality.
Autorenporträt
This book of poems may be unique, in one way. Jeffery Paine spent nearly sixty years (!) working on this, his first collection-for six decades in odd hours writing and rewriting, reworking and revising, honing and beginning anew. JP decided not to publish a single poem till this small-scale whole shebang was ready; also he tried not to write what might be, in essence, the same poem twice. (JP, with the Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, did however edit a fat anthology of modern international poems: The Poetry of Our World.) In other genres JP published widely but he may be best known for ushering Eastern culture and spirituality to popular audiences in the West. "Jeffery Paine is an unusual voice in American letters," so observed Indian novelist and Undersecretary General of the United Nations Shashi Tharoor, "one steeped in the wisdom of the East and yet infused with a knowing and witty sensibility that is profoundly Western." Although JP's books Father India, Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West, and Enlightenment Town were each named in various media a "Best Book of the Year," they didn't make him rich, i. e. provide a livable income. He thus indulged his penchant for working in older buildings. JP helped manage the oldest hotel in Amsterdam (dating from 1654). He worked in advertising, partly because the office was the oldest house in San Francisco (converted). He edited a magazine in the Smithsonian Castle in Washington DC, his office being where once Abraham Lincoln came to view official parades. He taught specialized literature in Descartes' bedroom. That's about the respectable side of it. Since Eternity, Speak with This Living Man took six decades, JP's next book of poetry, if published, will be published in a parallel universe.