SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 27) buddhist studies The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature Edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff Foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston • Afterword by Charles Johnson THE EMErGENCE OF BUDDHIST AMErICAN LITErATUrE John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff, editors With a Foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston and an Afterword by Charles Johnson Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America. New in Paper STAIrWAY TO NIrVA÷ N | A a Study of the Twenty Sam|ghas Based on the Works of Tsong kha pa James B. Apple Discusses an essential Tibetan Buddhist work that shows how Noble Beings progress toward enlightenment. Stairway to Nirvana ¯̣ ̣ A Study of the Twenty Samghas Based on the Works of Tsong kha pa James B. Apple The encounter between Buddhism and American literature has been a powerful one for both parties. While Buddhism fueled the Beat movement’s resounding critique of the United States as a spiritually dead society, Beat writers and others have shaped how Buddhism has been presented to and perceived by a North American audience. Contributors to this volume explore how Asian influences have been adapted to American desires in literary works and Buddhist poetics, or how Buddhist practices emerge in literary works. Starting with early aesthetic theories of Ernest Fenollosa, made famous but also distorted by Ezra Pound, the book moves on to the countercultural voices associated with the Beat movement and its friends and heirs such as Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Giorno, Waldman, and Whalen. The volume also considers the work of contemporary American writers of color influenced by Buddhism, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Charles Johnson, and Lan Cao. An interview with Kingston is included. “This book in your hands is a trove of the best we can do putting the Dharma into words.” — from the Foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. Gary Storhoff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford and the author of Understanding Charles Johnson. A volume in the SUNY series in Buddhism and American Culture John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff, editors JUNE • 272 pp $80.00 jacketed hc 978-1-4384-2653-2 James B. Apple examines one of the formative subjects in traditional Buddhist studies, the Twenty Varieties of the Sam|gha. The Sam|gha (community) is one of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sam|gha) universally revered by all Buddhists. While the Sam|gha is generally understood as the community of Buddhist ordained monks and nuns, along with lay adherents, the Twenty Varieties of the Sam|gha concerns an exemplary community of the twenty types of Noble Beings (aµrya-pudgala) who embody the Buddha’s teachings. Apple focuses on the interpretation of the Sam|gha given by the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar Tsong kha pa. JANUArY • 275 pp • 16 tables, 2 figures $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7376-4 e BUDDHIST SCrIPTUrES AS LITErATUrE Sacred Rhetoric and the Uses of Theory Ralph Flores Buddhis Scrutures as Lierature s a c r e d r h e t or i c a nd t h e u s e s of t h e or y Ralph Flores “…fascinating … [Flores] explores the drama, lyricism and storylines in Buddhist sacred literature while illustrating how rhetoric and ideology are at work in shaping the reader’s reactions … an interesting and thought-provoking book.” — Journal of the Buddhist Society JANUArY • 223 pp $18.95 pb 978-0-7914-7340-5 e directtext dt e 27 www.sunypress.edu Looks at a variety of Buddhist sacred writings as literature. P http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61587 http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61568 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61821
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