The role and treatment of the mind in American Buddhist poetry as depicted in some poems by Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen

The fact that American Buddhist poetry has a broad programme of matters and styles is more bewildering than clarifying. Although not apparently contradictory, this genre presents so wide a range of salient Buddhist teachings, such as karma, suffering, impermanence, emptiness and selflessness. In fac...

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Main Author: Pojprasat, Somboon
Published: University of Bristol 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.685208