John Whalen-Bridge & Gary Storhoff 
Writing as Enlightenment [EPUB ebook] 
Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Jan Willis
Introduction
John Whalen-Bridge & Gary Storhoff

PART I. Widening the Stream: Literature as Transmission
1. The Transmission of Zen as Dual Discourse: Shaku Soen and Okakura Kakuzo
Jane Falk
2. Black American Buddhism: History and Representation
Linda Furgerson Selzer

PART II. The New Lamp: Buddhism and Contemporary Writers
3. Some of the Dharma: The Human, the Heavenly, and the “Real Work” in the Writings of Gary Snyder
Allan Johnston
4. “Listen and Relate”: Buddhism, Daoism, and Chance in the Poetry and Poetics of Jackson Mac Low
Jonathan Stalling
5. A Deeper Kind of Truth: Buddhist Themes in Don De Lillo’s
Libra
Gary Storhoff

PART III. Speaking as Enlightenment: Interviews with Buddhist Writers
6. “The Present Moment Happening”: A Conversation with Gary Snyder about
Danger on Peaks
Julia Martin
7. Embodied Mindfulness: Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston on Buddhism, Race, and Beauty
John Whalen-Bridge
8. Poetry and Practice at Naropa University
John Whalen-Bridge
List of Contributors
Index

John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. His books include
Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest.
Gary Storhoff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. He is the author of
Understanding Charles Johnson. Together they are coeditors of
The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature and
American Buddhism as a Way of Life, both also published by SUNY Press.