Charles R. Johnson

Taming the Ox (eBook, ePUB)

Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Pract ice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Renowned author and National Book Award winner Dr. Charles Johnson writes that his creative work and Buddhist practice are the two activities in his life that have reinforced each other—and have anchored him. In this wide and varied collection of essays, reviews, and short stories, Johnson offers writings that passionately and compellingly illuminate how politics, race, and spiritual life intersect in our changing culture. Throughout his long and varied creative career, Johnson has been a cartoonist and illustrator, screen- and teleplay writer, novelist, philosopher, short fiction writer, essayist, literary scholar, and professor. His work is often philosophically, politically, and spiritually oriented, and he has deeply explored racial issues in the United States, most notably in his novel Middle Passage, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Johnson received a MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant," in 1998. Taming the Ox is a wonderful reflection of what Johnson has learned during his passage through American literature, the visual arts, and the Buddhadharma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shambhala
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780834800007
• Artikelnr.: 42618132

Autorenporträt

CHARLES R. JOHNSON is an American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays, most of which have a philosophical orientation. Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Dreamer and Middle Passage. Middle Passage won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1990, making Johnson the second black American male writer to receive this prize after Ralph Ellison in 1953. Johnson received a MacArthur Fellowship or "Genius Grant" in 1998. He is also the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships and many other prizes, such as a 2002 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his most recent award is the 2013 Humanities Washington Award for creating and contributing for fifteen years a new, original short story to a literary event called "Bedtime Stories," which since 1998 has raised a million dollars for the literacy programs of the nonprofit organization Humanities Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Essays
The Dharma and the Artist's Eye
Dharma for a Dangerous Time
The Dharma of Social Transformation
And If Peace Is Their Goal, They Will in the Field of Politics Be
Themselves
Peace Embodied and Other Principles of Enlightened Politics
The King We Need: Teachings for a Nation in Search of Itself Why Buddhists
Should Vote
Is Mine Bigger Than Yours?
Why Buddhism for Black America Now?
Mindfulness and the Beloved Community
The Meaning of Barack Obama
Reviews and Prefaces
A Full-Bodied Zen
Going beyond Ethnic Dualism
Foreword for Nixon Under the Bodhi Treeand Other Works of Buddhist Fiction
Introduction for Why Is American Buddhism So White?
"We Think, Therefore We Are"
Stories
Prince of the Ascetics
The Cynic
Kamadhatu, a Modern Sutra
Welcome to Wedgwood
Guinea Pig
The Weave