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The Circle of the Way
A comprehensive, accessible guide to the fascinating history of Zen Buddhism--including important figures, schools, foundational texts, practices, and politics. Zen Buddhism has a storied history--Bodhidharma sitting in meditation in a cave for nine years; a would-be disciple cutting off his own arm to get the master's attention; the proliferating schools and intense Dharma combat of the Tang and Song Dynasties; Zen nuns and laypeople holding their own against patriarchal lineages; the appearance of new masters in the Zen schools of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and later the Western world. In The Circle of the Way, Zen practitioner and popular religion writer Barbara O'Brien brings clarity to this huge swath of history by charting a middle way between Zen's traditional lore and the findings of modern historical scholarship. In a clear and often funny style, O'Brien parses fact from fiction while always attending to the greatest interest of contemporary practitioners--the development of Zen doctrine and practice as a living tradition across cultures and centuries.
Zen Odyssey
Explore two lives—and a relationship—that profoundly shaped American Zen. Ruth Fuller Sasaki and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki: two pioneers of Zen in the West. Ruth was an American with a privileged life, even during the height of the Great Depression, before she went to Japan and met D. T. Suzuki. Sokei-an was one of the first Zen priests to come to America; he brought the gift of the Dharma to the United States but in 1942 was put in an internment camp. One made his way to the West and the other would find her way to the East, but together they created the First Zen Institute of America and helped birth a new generation of Zen practitioners: among them, Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, and Burton Watson. They were married less than a year before Sokei-an died, but Ruth would go on to helm trailblazing translations in his honor and to become the first foreigner to be the priest of a Rinzai Zen temple in Japan. With lyrical prose, authors Steven Schwartz and Janica Anderson bring Ruth and Sokei-an to life. Two dozen intimate photographs photos show us two people who aren’t mere historical figures, but flesh and blood people, walking their paths.
Democratizing Luxury
Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a consumer society emerging in the late nineteenth century, with iconic companies whose names became associated with quality and style. At the same time, Western ideas of modernity merged with earlier artisanal ideals to create Japanese connotations of luxury for readily accessible products. Businesses manufactured items at all price points to increase consumer attainability, while starkly curtailing pr...
American Sutra
Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion A Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Raises timely and important questions about what religious freedom in America truly means.” —Ruth Ozeki “A must-read for anyone interested in the implacable quest for civil liberties, social and racial justice, religious freedom, and American belonging.” —George Takei On December 7, 1941, as the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, the first person detained was the leader of the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist sect in Hawai‘i. Nearly all Japanese Americans were subject to accusations of disloyalty, but Buddhists aroused particular suspicion. From the White House to the local town council, many believed that Buddhism was...
Poet in Place and Time
Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger addresses the work of poet Joanne Kyger from a variety of approaches, from her first book The Tapestry and the Web (1965) to her last major work On Time (2015), situating her within various movements of 20th century American poetry.
The Dubious Benefits of Nostalgia and Other Stories
A G.I. on leave in a quiet Belgian town meets and tries to seduce a young woman unsuccessfully. Returning twenty-five years later, he finds the town a noisy polluted place, and the now-aging woman still tending her mother's shop. In The Two Dans Dan Landau and Dan Laine share first names, a 48-hour pass to Paris during World War II, and adventures abroad. A professor travels to Israel hoping to spend some time living among the extreme Orthodox Hassidim of the Mea-Sha'arim in Jerusalem and does...with unexpected results. Author Sam Bluefarb treats readers to these stories and other tales of romance, humor, and mishap.
Flashes and Lies
Can the truth set you free if you don't know how to lie? Teddie -- Theodora Waterford Olds -- s trapped in truth. A menopausal court reporter with two grown children, a philandering husband, a bitchy sister, and an impossibly demanding, seldom truthful mother, Teddie will not, cannot tell even the whitest of lies. Yet, on a snowy Detroit afternoon, after she has thrown herself on a fleeing bank robber, change sets in. With the first lie to her mother, the famed photographer Thea Waterford, she begins to take control of her life. Cascading falsehoods follow. Her life disintegrates, then reshapes, as does her relationship with her dying mother.
Black and Blue Jew
Chester Aaron has successfully wedded the tall tale to modern realism in an entertaining collection of novellas, which, together, tell the unforgettable life story of Ben Kahn. The reader gets to know a remarkable man, a man who is haunted by the stench of war after he champions an unlikely champion, a man who loves and loses his wife only to regain their life together, a man who has a passion for loving and not loving women statuesque and scarred, bitter and generous. A man both of principled self-indulgence and of self-defying principle, Ben finally speaks his mind in a last, desperate attempt to right a decades-old wrong.
The Guardian
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