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Absence
I was prepared to read Bums and be taken with the Gary Snyder character and thus be able to go back to David and argue that, yes, their understanding of Buddhism might have been limited by their cultural inflexibility, but they were engaging with sincere questions in a sincere way. I was not expecting to…
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Worlds Collide
I was fascinated by this profile, in The Smart Set of Henry Steel Olcott, the American leader of a Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka in the late 19th century. It would be hard to find a better example of an extraordinary person doing extraordinary things than Olcott’s life, spanning from antebellum United States: Henry Steel Olcott began life…
