Journeys East 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religous Traditions
, by Oldmeadow, Harry
- ISBN: 9780941532570 | 0941532577
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/28/2004
Journeys East tells the story of the twentieth century's encounters between East and West by exploring the lives of many of the most fascinating scientists, intellectuals, artists, and spiritual seekers of our time.
| List of Illustrations | p. x |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction and Background | |
| The Debate about "Orientalism" | p. 3 |
| The West's Encounter with the East since Antiquity | |
| What do we mean by "Orientalism"? | |
| Edward Said and the Critics of Orientalism | |
| Alternative Perspectives | |
| The Traditionalist Outlook | |
| Ex Oriente Lux: the 19th Century Background | p. 20 |
| Romanticism and the Orient | |
| The American Transcendentalists | |
| Modernism and Cultural Crisis | |
| The 1893 World's Parliament of Religions | |
| Western Engagements with Eastern Traditions | |
| Five Bridge-Builders between West and East | p. 37 |
| Sister Nivedita | |
| Rudolf Otto | |
| Giuseppe Tucci | |
| Gary Snyder | |
| Huston Smith | |
| Theosophy and Western Seekers in the Sub-continent, 1900-1950 | p. 63 |
| Theosophy and the "White Buddhists" | |
| Annie Besant and Krishnamurti | |
| A Miscellany of Early Western "Converts" to Hinduism | |
| Fictional Passages to India | |
| Californian Proselytes and the Appeal of Vedanta | |
| A Note on Ramakrishna and Vivekananda | |
| Theravadin Buddhism and White Buddhists in Ochre Robes | |
| Christmas Humphreys | |
| Eranos and the Comparative Mythographers | p. 95 |
| Myth and Depth Psychology | |
| Carl Jung and the East | |
| Eranos | |
| Heinrich Zimmer | |
| Joseph Campbell | |
| Mircea Eliade | |
| Reflections on Jung and Eliade | |
| The Western Quest for "Secret Tibet" | p. 125 |
| Pathfinders and Mythologizers | |
| Desideri, de Koros, Waddell, Taylor | |
| In Search of "Secret Tibet" | |
| Madame Blavatsky | |
| Alexandra David-Neel | |
| W.Y. Evans-Wentz | |
| Heinrich Harrer | |
| Marco Pallis | |
| Anagarika Govinda | |
| Tibet and the West in the Contemporary Era | |
| Later Travelers and Seekers in Tibet | |
| Counterfeit Tibetan Esotericism: the Lobsang Rampa Case | |
| Tibet, Western Esotericism and New Age Orientalism | |
| The "Floating Worlds" of China and Japan | p. 155 |
| China | |
| European Perceptions | |
| Arthur Waley | |
| Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung | |
| John Blofeld | |
| Rene Guenon | |
| Joseph Needham | |
| Japan | |
| Ernest Fennellosa and the Late 19th Century | |
| D. T. Suzuki and Western Zen in the Inter-war Years | |
| Europeans in Japan | |
| A Note on Shin and Other Japanese Traditions | |
| Traditionalism and the Sophia Perennis | p. 183 |
| Introduction | |
| Rene Guenon, Tradition and Oriental Metaphysics | |
| Ananda Coomaraswamy, Scholar and Dharma-Warrior | |
| Frithjof Schuon and the Religio Perennis in East and West | |
| Other Traditionalists | |
| Christian Missionaries, Monks and Mystics in India | p. 215 |
| Christian Missionaries and Monks in India | |
| Jules Monchanin | |
| Henri le Saux | |
| Bede Griffiths | |
| A Note on the Christian Ashram Movement | |
| Thomas Merton and Eastern Spirituality | |
| Jottings on other Christian Missionaries | |
| A Closing Reflection on Monasticism | |
| Dharma Bums: Beats, Hippies and the Counter-culture | p. 245 |
| The Beats and Hippies Turn East | |
| Jack Kerouac | |
| The San Francisco Be-In and the "Armies of the Night" | |
| To a Buddhist Beat | |
| Allen Ginsberg on Politics, Poetics and Spirituality | |
| Politics, Poetics and the Encounter with Eastern Spirituality | |
| "Pop Gurus," "New Consciousness" and Drugs | |
| Ram Dass | |
| Alan Watts | |
| "New Consciousness," New Universalism? | |
| A Note on Drugs, Mysticism and Spirituality | |
| Closing Reflections | |
| Eastern Teachings, Western Teachers, 1950-2000 | p. 270 |
| Hinduism/Vedanta in the West | |
| The Ramakrishna Movement | |
| Yogananda and the SRF | |
| ISKON | |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and TM | |
| Ananda Marg | |
| Western Gurus with Hindu Affiliations | |
| Reflections on Hinduism in the West | |
| Theravada Buddhism | |
| Sangharakshita and the FWBO | |
| The Forest Tradition | |
| Western Vipassana Teachers | |
| Tibetan Buddhism | |
| The Diaspora and American Vajrayana | |
| Western Vajrayana Teachers | |
| Zen in the West in the Post-War Period | |
| Japanese Masters | |
| Western Teachers | |
| Scholar-Adepts | |
| A Note on Some Key Issues for Western Teachers and Practitioners | |
| Eastern Influences on Western Thought | |
| The Not-So-Close Encounters of Western Psychology and Eastern Spirituality | p. 307 |
| Religion and Psychology | |
| The Goldstein-Kornfield Disagreement | |
| Western Psychology and Religion | |
| A Traditionalist Perspective on Psychologism | |
| The Traditionalist Critique of Jung | |
| Eastern Spirituality and Western Psychology | |
| Erich Fromm and Zen | |
| Existentialism, Herman Hesse, Hubert Benoit | |
| Hans Jacobs on Western Psychotherapy and Hindu Sadhana | |
| Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology: Ken Wilber and others | |
| Mystical Experience, Meditation and Biofeedback | |
| The Lessons of the East | |
| Eastern Currents in Western Philosophy and Science | p. 335 |
| Conditions for a Meaningful Comparative Philosophy | |
| S.H. Nasr | |
| The Traditionalist Perspective on Metaphysics and Philosophy | |
| Existentialism and the East | |
| Nietzsche | |
| Heidegger | |
| Buber | |
| Tillich | |
| The Bankruptcy of Modern Science | |
| Eastern Influences on New Scientific Paradigms | |
| Orientalism, Ideology and Engagement | p. 364 |
| Orientalism, Fascism and the "Mystic East" | |
| Zen and Japanese Nationalism and Militarism | |
| Orientalism, Racial Theory and the Allure of Fascism | |
| Gandhi's Legacy | |
| Thich Nhat Hanh and Engaged Buddhism | |
| The Meeting of Buddhism and Feminism | |
| Notes on Inter-religious Re-visionings | |
| "The Translucence of the Eternal": Towards a Cross-cultural Religious Understanding of the Natural Order | p. 393 |
| Traditional Cosmogonies and Cosmological Principles | |
| Maya and the Putative "World-Denial" of the East | |
| The Sacred and Profane, and the Human Situation | |
| The Symbolism of Natural Forms and the Cosmological Sciences | |
| Beauty: Divine Rays | |
| The Western Desacralization of Nature | |
| Dialogue, Pluralism and the Inner Unity of Religions | p. 420 |
| The Collision of Religions in the Contemporary World | |
| The Western Pursuit of Inter-religious Understanding | |
| Religious Dialogue and Spiritual Practice | |
| The Case of Christian Zen | |
| Jesuits in Japan | |
| The Traditionalist Perspective on the Formal Diversity and Inner Unity of Religions | |
| Religion, Revelation and Orthodoxy | |
| The Exoteric and Esoteric Domains | |
| The Limits of Religious Exclusivism | |
| A Note on the Exposure of Esoteric Doctrines | |
| Traditionalism, Interfaith Encounters and Comparative Religion | |
| A Checklist of Eastern Teachers in the West | p. 450 |
| Sources | p. 455 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 490 |
| Biographical Notes | p. 491 |
| Index of Persons | p. 492 |
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