A Buddhist History of the West

Buddhism teaches that to become happy, greed, ill-will, and delusion must be transformed into their positive counterparts: generosity, compassion, and wisdom. The history of the West, like all histories, has been plagued by the consequences of greed, ill-will, and delusion. A Buddhist History of the West investigates how individuals have tried to ground themselves to make themselves feel more real. To be self-conscious is to experience ungroundedness as a sense of lack, but what is lacking has been understood differently in different historical periods. Author David R. Loy examines how the understanding of lack changes at historical junctures and shows how those junctures were so crucial in the development of the West.

Author: David R. Loy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 01/24/2002
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 6.00h x 8.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780791452608

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2002 pg. 1977

About the Author
David R. Loy is Professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University, Japan. He is the author of Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism and Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy.

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