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Engaged Buddhists
Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Claude AnShin Thomas, Sulak Sivaraksa, Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, Robert Baker Aitken, Joan Halifax, Angel Kyodo Williams, Preah Maha Ghosananda, Christopher Titmuss, Alan Senauke, Alfred Bloom
ISBN/EAN: 9781155740799
Umbreit-Nr.: 3348466
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 26 S.
Format in cm: 0.2 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 19.03.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Claude AnShin Thomas, Sulak Sivaraksa, Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, Robert Baker Aitken, Joan Halifax, Angel Kyodo Williams, Preah Maha Ghosananda, Christopher Titmuss, Alan Senauke, Alfred Bloom, Paul Genki Kahn, Maylie Scott, Tara Brach, Engaged Spirituality, Joanna Macy, Shenphen Rinpoche, Rodney Smith, Tue Trung, Kurt Kankan Spellmeyer, Sylvia Wetzel. Excerpt: Claude Anshin Thomas (born 1947) is an American Zen Buddhist monk and Vietnam War veteran. He is a vocal advocate of nonviolence and an international speaker, teacher and writer. Thomas was brought to Buddhism by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, and was ordained in 1995 by Tetsugen Bernard Glassman of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Thomas brings Buddhist meditation practice and dharma teachings directly to the public through social projects, talks, and retreats. Since 1994, Thomas has walked 19,000 miles (31,000 km) on peace pilgrimages throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. While walking, Thomas carries no money and begs for food and shelter in the mendicant monk tradition. He is the author of At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace (2004) and founder of the Zaltho Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence. Thomas was born in November 1947 in Pennsylvania and grew up in the town of Waterford. His father was a teacher and veteran, while his mother worked odd jobs as a barmaid, waitress, and house cleaner. Thomas experienced an abusive childhood, with his mother responsible for much of the physical abuse in his home, and his father emotionally distant. In one incident, his mother threw him down a flight of stairs, and in another, his father severely beat him. His relatives spoke glowingly about their war experiences, talking about it as a "great adventure" and influencing the young Thomas. When he was 11, his parents separated. Thomas began studying Korean style Karate (Hapkido) at the age of 14; His teacher worked closely with Thomas, practicing a secular form of Zen that did not include the teachings of the Buddha. In school, Thomas was a competitive athlete, and was influenced by the warrior mentality he found on the playing field. In addition to his relatives and school sports, Hollywood sold him on the idea of going to war. Thomas was offered an athletic scholarship to attend college, but