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On Zen in America, Shunryu Suzuki, and the San Francisco Zen Center
On Zen in America, Shunryu Suzuki, and the San Francisco Zen Center
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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Michael Downing teaches creative writing at Tufts University. This conversation features a deep dive into Michael’s nonfiction book Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center, hailed by the New York Review of Books as a "dramatic and insightful" narrative history of the first Buddhist monastery outside of Asia, and by the Los Angeles Times as "a highly readable book, important for the healing it invites in giving voice to the thoughts and feelings of Zen Center members who have remained silent until now."
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Released:
Apr 5, 2022
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Titles in the series (100)
Charles Prebish, “An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer” (Sumeru Press, 2011): Charles Prebish is among the most prominent scholars of American Buddhism. He has been a pioneer in studying the forms that Buddhist tradition has taken in the United States. Now retired, he has written this unusual new book, by New Books in Buddhist Studies