How the swans came to the lake : a narrative history of Buddhism in America /
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Boulder : [New York] :
Shambhala ; Distributed in the U.S. by Random House,
1981
Boulder, Colo. : [New York] : Shambhala ; Distributed by Random House, 1981 Boulder : [New York] : 1981 Boulder, Colo. : [New York] : 1981 |
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Table of Contents:
- Turning the wheel
- East and west : the central region
- The mine of Sanskrit
- The restless pioneers
- Gold mountain and rice bowl country : the first Chinese and Japanese in America
- The white Buddhists : Colonel Olcott, Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society
- History is repeating itself : the world parliament of religions
- The wake of the parliament
- The Boston Buddhists : an interlude
- Holding the lotus to the rock : 1905-1945
- The fifties : beat and square
- And round : the sixties
- When the iron bird flies
- In the land of the red man
- The other Zen and the pure land : the Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese
- Continuing Buddhism : the present as history