Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Literature as vehicle: transmission and transformation. The emptiness of patterned flux : Ernest Fenollosa's Buddhist essay "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry" / Jonathan Stalling
  • Gary Snyder's selective way to Cold Mountain : domesticating Han Shan / Yuemin He
  • John Giorno : Buddhism, poetry, and transgression / Marcus Boon
  • Buddhadharma and poetry without credentials / Michael Heller
  • Zen, Vajrayana, and the avant-garde : a pluralistic poetics. Finger pointing at the moon : Zen and the poetry of Philip Whalen / Jane Falk
  • Keeping vision alive : the Buddhist stillpoint in the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / Erik Mortenson
  • Illumination through the cracks : the melting down of conventional socio-religious thought and practice in the work of Gary Snyder / Tom Lavazzi
  • The American poetic diamond vehicle : Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman re-work Vajrayana Buddhism / Jane Augustine
  • Widening the circle : Buddhism and American writers of color. Buddhism, Chinese religion, and the ceremony of writing : an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston / John Whalen-Bridge
  • A bridge between two worlds : crossing to America in Monkey bridge / Hanh Nguyen and R.C. Lutz
  • 'Opening the hand of thought' : the meditative mind in Charles Johnson's Dr. King's refrigerator and other bedtime stories / Gary Storhoff.