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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.
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

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East Asian religions

Buddhism

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791489123
Langue	English

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A Buddhist History of the West

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A BUDDHIST HISTORY OF THEWEST

STUDIES IN LACK

David R. Loy

s t a t e u n i v e r s i t y o f n e w y o r k p r e s s

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Loy, David R., 1947– A Buddhist history of the West : studies in lack / David R. Loy. p. cm. — (SUNY series in religious studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5259-X (alk. paper) — (ISBN 0-7914-5260-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Civilization,Western—Psychological aspects. 2. Civilization,Western—Philosophy. 3. Civilization,Western—Classical influences. 4. Philosophy, Buddhist. 5. Buddhism—Doctrines. 6. Self (Philosophy) 7. Identity (Psychology) 8. Self-consciousness. I.Title. II. Series.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Buddhist Perspective

The Lack of Freedom

The Lack of Progress The Renaissance of Lack The Lack of Modernity

The Lack of Civil Society

Preparing for Something That Never Happens

The Religion of the Market

Afterword: The Future of Lack Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments

Earlier drafts of some of these chapters have been published previously. Permission from the following journals and publishers to reprint this material is gratefully acknowledged. “Freedom: A Buddhist Critique” (a shortened version) inJustice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives,ed. Ron Bontekoe and Maria Stepaniants. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.The full ver-sion was published under the same title inInternational Studies in Phi-losophy(2000).32, no. 2 “The Spiritual Origins of the West: ALackPerspective,” inInter-national Philosophical Quarterly40, no. 2 (June 2000). “Trying to Become Real: A Buddhist Critique of Some Secular Heresies,”International Philosophical Quarterly32, no. 4 (December 1992). Chapter 5:“Trying to Become Real,” in David Loy,Lack and Transcendence:The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existential-ism, and BuddhismPress, 1996;N.J.: Humanities (Atlantic Highlands, Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 1999). “Preparing for Something that Never Happens:The Means/Ends Problem in Modern Culture,”International Studies in Philosophy26, 4 (1994). Also published inVarieties of Ethical ReﬂectionMichael Barnhart, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001). “The Religion of the Market,” inAmerican AcademyJournal of the of Religion(Summer 1997). Also published in65, no. 2 Visions of a New Earth: Religious Perspectives on Population, Consumption and Ecology,ed. Harold C. Coward and Dan Maguire. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1999). Among the many people who have helped along the way, special thanks to Fred Dallmayr, Ruben Habito, Gary Snyder, and Eugene

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Webb, along with a deep bow to Jon Watts and other members of the Think Sangha. I am also grateful to Harold Coward (editor, SUNY series in Religious Studies), Nancy Ellegate (editor, SUNY Press) and Laurie Searl (editor, SUNY Press) for their assistance and encouragement. Last but certainly not least: thank you, Linda.

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