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A Buddhist life in America : simplicity in the complex / Joan Halifax ; introduction by Ronald F. Thiemann ; foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halifax, Joan.
- Series:
- Lectures.
- Wit lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious life--Buddhism.
- Religious life.
- Halifax, Joan.
- Spiritual biography--United States.
- Spiritual biography.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 45 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Paulist Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Joan Halifax is known for her work with the dying. In this book she relates how she found a life of her own through her contact with traditional cultures and through association with people like Alan Lomax, Stanislav Grof and Joseph Campbell. At first a refuge from painful mental anguish, Buddhism became, in time, a place of refreshment and self-rediscovery for her. It also gave texture to her life of service, leading to the practice of "engaged Buddhism" that is attentive to the suffering world and a healing presence within it.
- ISBN:
- 0809137852
- OCLC:
- 37837453
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