New World Dharma, livre ebook

Based on Trevor Carolan's interviews, profiles, and essays from the past twenty years, this book offers a fascinating and intimate look at many of the Buddhist (and Buddhist-inspired) spiritual and cultural leaders who have shaped our time. Drawn from the global mosaic of the arts and humanities, environmentalism, and governance, Carolan's collaborators include Buddhist teachers, poets, writers, activists, and even a politician. Readers will encounter Red Pine, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Snyder, Robert Aitken-Roshi, Jerry Brown, the Dalai Lama, Allen Ginsberg, along with many others. They explore engaged practice, East-West ethics, the role of dharma-influenced literature, Beat literature, social and political activism, and more. A rich resource for anyone interested in Buddhism, New World Dharma reveals a Buddhist consciousness responding to the challenge of rethinking what citizenship, community, and the sacred might mean in a global age.
Foreword by Susan Moon
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Dancing with China’s Old Masters: With Master Red Pine/Bill Porter
2. The Wild Mind of Gary Snyder
3. Grounded in Humanity: Gary Snyder on Back on the Fire
4. A Bloomsday Interview with Joanne Kyger
5. And So Make Peace: Talking Story with Maxine Hong Kingston
6. The Bedrock of Practice: With Sulak Sivaraksa in Bangkok
7. A Heart Free to Listen: The Awareness Practice of Thich Nhat Hanh
8. Embracing the Responsibility of the Moment: The Zen Politics of Jerry Brown
9. Avanti! The Dharma Poetics of Diane di Prima
10. On Forgiveness and Compassion: H. H. the Dalai Lama
11. On the Trail with Nanao Sakaki
Back on the Trail with Nanao
12. Dangerous Work: The Retirement Interview with Zen Master Robert Aitken-Roshi
13. Expatriate Passions: Meeting Donald Richie
14. A Conversation with Andrew Schelling
15. Notes from the Gone World: Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Street Smarts and the Poetry Rebellion
16. Beloved Renegade: With Allen Ginsberg at Cortes Island