Buddha at the Apocalypse

Awakening from a Culture of Destruction

By: Kurt Spellmeyer, Robert A.F. Thurman (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 20 April 2010

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Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world. We believe with certainty in the inevitable forward march of progress, in the natural rightness of humankind’s control of the environment, and, most pervasively, in the idea of an epic struggle that requires righteousness to utterly destroy evil.

These images of apocalypse and dominance pervade our language, our politics, and, with coming of 2012, even our escapist entertainment. In Buddha at the Apocalypse, Kurt Spellmeyer offers us an alternative view that comes like breath of cool, fresh air in these times.

Drawing on the Buddha, Spellmeyer makes an impassioned clarion call to awaken from the culture of destruction or perish within it. The book also features a foreword by the most high-profile Buddhist academic in America and possibly the world.

About the Authors

Kurt Spellmeyer is an award-winning teacher and scholar in the English department at Rutgers University. He was also authorised to teach Zen by Kangan Glenn Webb in 1985, and now leads the Cold Mountain Sangha in New Jersey. Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, and the president of Tibet House US. He was chosen by Time as one of the twenty-five most influential people

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"This book helped me to see our western culture more clearly, and inspired me to rebel against the Apocolyptic paradigm with renewed vigor."--Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx and Against the Stream

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Buddhism Philosophy Non-Western Philosophy Oriental & Indian Philosophy

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Welcome to the Apocalypse	p. 1
World Despising
In the Beginning of History	p. 19
orld Despising and the Origins of the Modern World	p. 33
World Embracing
An End to History, an End to Suffering	p. 51
One Body-The Hidden Ground of Liberation	p. 69
From Revolutionary Thinking to an Ecology of Mind	p. 87
Images of Order in a Complex World	p. 105
On and Off the Road of History	p. 123
Conclusion; Buddha at the Apocalypse	p. 139
Notes	p. 151
Index	p. 167
About the Author	p. 179
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