Buddhismus in Den Vereinigten Staaten - Thich NH T H NH, Chogyam Trungpa, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Paul Carus, Alan Watts, Brad Warner (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Thich Nh t H nh, Chogyam Trungpa, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Paul Carus, Alan Watts, Brad Warner, Philip Kapleau, Jack Kornfield, Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Seung Sahn, Joseph Goldstein, Claude Anshin Thomas, Suzuki Shunry, Edward Espe Brown, Senzaki Nyogen, Zenkei Shibayama, Abhayagiri-Tempel. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Thich Nh t H nh (pronounced ) (born October 11, 1926) is a Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist now based in France. He joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thi n) monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. The title Thich is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan. In the early 1960s, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon. This grassroots relief organization rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, established medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War. He traveled to the U.S. to study at Princeton University, and later to lecture at Cornell University and Columbia University. His focus at the time, was to urge the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam. He urged Martin Luther King, Jr. to publicly oppose the Vietnam War; King nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in January 1967. He created the (non-Zen) Order of Interbeing in 1966, establishing monastic and practice centers around the world. In 1973, the Vietnamese government denied Nhat Hanh permission to return to Vietnam and he went into exile in France. From 1976-1977 he led efforts to rescue Vietnamese boat people in the Gulf of Siam. Nhat Hanh has become an important influence in the development of Western Buddhism. His teachings and practices aim to appeal to people from various religious, spiritual, and political backgrounds, intending to offer mindfulness practices for more Western sensibilities. As of 2007, he has been based at the Plum ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de