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Eastern and Western Traditions : 13, Hardback Book

Eastern and Western Traditions : 13 Hardback

Part of the The Complete Works of Sangharakshita series

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In this volume Sangharakshita approaches communicating Buddhism in the West from two very different, but equally illuminating, angles.

In the first part, in talks given in the early years of his teaching in England, he introduces the apparently exotic worlds of Tibetan Buddhism (1965) and its creative symbols (1972) and Zen Buddhism (1965), clarifying their mysteries while also somehow allowing them to work their magic.

In the second part, by contrast, he examines the practice of Buddhism in the context of Western culture.

In the polemical paper The FWBO and 'Protestant Buddhism' (first published in 1992) he looks at the characteristics of the Triratna community (the FWBO at the time of writing) as it was 25 years after its founding, in a response to an academic's assessment of the nascent Buddhist movement. And in From Genesis to the Diamond Sutra (first published in 2005) he reveals his own attitude to the literature and doctrines of Christianity, including the Christian view of homosexuality, in a multi-faceted exploration which includes autobiographical material not found anywhere else in his written work.

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