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7 ■ THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST THE ENCOUNTER OF BUDDHISM AND WESTERN CULTURE FOREWORD BY THE DALAI LAMA STEPHEN BATCHELOR _ THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture: 543 BCE -1992 Stephen Batchelor f±l [__i Aquarian An Imprint of HarpcrCollinsAiA/tsAers Aquarian An Imprint of HarperCollinsP«6/is/iers 77—85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB First published by Aquarian 1994 10 987654321 © Stephen Batchelor 1994 Stephen Batchelor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1 85538 343 8 Phototypeset by Harper Phototypesetters Limited, Northampton, England Printed in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham pic, Chatham, Kent Maps by Chris Shaw All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. For Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey Toutes les histoires anciennes, comme le disait un de nos beaux esprits, ne sont que des fables convenues. (All ancient histories, as one of our fine spirits put it, are nothing but convenient fictions.) Voltaire ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank the following people who have contributed to making this book possible. Fred von Allmen, Ajahn Amaro, Anando, Alexander Andreyev, Sr. Annabel, Maurice Ash, Roger Ash-Wheeler, Sr. Astrid, Gert Bastian, David Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, Mauro Bergonzi, Martin Baumann, Pierre-Francois de Bethune, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Oleg and Svetlana Borisov, John Bramble, Alexander Breslavetz, Jacques Brosse, Reinette and Kirk Brown, Heather Campbell, Richard Causton, Guy Claxton, Alessandra Cornero, Phillipe Coupey, H. H. the Dalai Lama, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Mary Finnegan, Ven. Gerard Godet, Hans Gruber, Charles Hadfield, Charles Hastings, Roger Hill, Edie Irwin, Paul Jaffe, Lama Jigme Tsewang, Petra Kelly, Ursula King, Kittisaro, Arnold Kotler, Dharmachari Kulananda, Karl Ludwig Leiter, Louis van Loon, Hans Ludin, Bob Mann, Mimi Marechai, Daniel Milles, Lama Monlam, Rev. Daishin Morgan, Vladimir Montlevich, Thich Nhat Hanh, Elena Nikolaeva, Nyanaponika Thera, Ole Nydahl, Lama Osel, Andrei Paribok, Ven. Thubten Pende, Corrado Pensa, Luciano Petech, Elizabeth Puttick, Andrew Rawlinson, Roland Rech, Mathieu Riccard, Sam Richards, Donald Rothberg, Jeremy Russell, Ven. Tenzin Khetsun Samaev, Rev. A.M.A. Samy, Sangharakshita, Karl Schmidt, Chris Shaw, Jeff Shore, John Snelling, Christof Spitz, Rosemary Staheyeff, Suryadas, Karen Thomas, Tom Tillemans, Peter Timmerman, Christopher Titmuss, Helen Tworkov, Jaroslav Vasilikov, Vimalo, Maurice Walshe, Tulku Perna Wangyal, Gay Watson, Russell Webb, Sylvia Wetzel. CONTENTS Foreword by the Dalai Lama ix Introduction xi Prologue xv Part One: Ashoka, Greeks and Gnostics 1. Menander: Greeks in India 3 2. Nagasena: The Dharma 16 3. Basilides: Gnostic Connections 25 4. Bhikkhu Sangha: The Order of Monks 36 Part Two: Mongols and Friars, Lamas and Zen 5. Shantideva: The Bodhisattva 53 6. Padmasambhava: The Nyingma Tradition 63 7. William of Rubruck: First Encounters 79 8. Karmapa: The Kagyu Tradition 101 9. Dogen: The Soto Zen Tradition 119 10. Nichiren: The Nichiren Tradition 138 Part Three: Jesuits, Tulkus and Koans 11. Francis Xavier: The Jesuits 161 12. Tsongkhapa: The Geluk Tradition 184 13. Hakuin: The Rinzai Zen Tradition 205 Part Four: Reason and Romance 14. Eugene Burnouf: The Construction of Buddhism 227 15. Arthur Schopenhauer: The Oriental Renaissance 250 16. Everyman: The Awakening of the West 272 Part Five: Sangha 17. Bidiya Dandaron: Russian Connections 283 18. Alexandra David-Neel: The Razor’s Edge 303 19. Sangharakshita: Adaptation 323 20. Satipatthana: Mindful Awareness 341 21. Nhat Hanh: Engagement 353 Epilogue 370 Glossary of Technical Terms 380 Notes 385 Bibliography 398 Index 407 Maps: India and Tibet 4 The Awakening of the West: Europe and Asia 80 Japan 139 China 162
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