New World Dharma

Canadian literary scholar and journalist Trevor Carolan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of the Fraser Valley near Vancouver. His books include Return to Stillness: Twenty Years with a Tai Chi Master.

• Foreword by Susan MoonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dancing with China’s Old Masters: With Master Red Pine/Bill Porter2. The Wild Mind of Gary Snyder3. Grounded in Humanity: Gary Snyder on Back on the Fire 4. A Bloomsday Interview with Joanne Kyger5. And So Make Peace: Talking Story with Maxine Hong Kingston6. The Bedrock of Practice: With Sulak Sivaraksa in Bangkok7. A Heart Free to Listen: The Awareness Practice of Thich Nhat Hanh8. Embracing the Responsibility of the Moment: The Zen Politics of Jerry Brown9. Avanti! The Dharma Poetics of Diane di Prima10. On Forgiveness and Compassion: H. H. the Dalai Lama11. On the Trail with Nanao SakakiBack on the Trail with Nanao12. Dangerous Work: The Retirement Interview with Zen Master Robert Aitken-Roshi13. Expatriate Passions: Meeting Donald Richie14. A Conversation with Andrew Schelling15. Notes from the Gone World: Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Street Smarts and the Poetry Rebellion16. Beloved Renegade: With Allen Ginsberg at Cortes Island

"…this is a book for the general reader who has an interest in getting to know some important figures of the contemporary Buddhist world better, as well as a desire to explore the influence that Buddhism has played on their lives." — Nova Religio"This collection is a treat for anyone interested in how the Dharma is lived today. Each chapter is like a window that opens unto the life, adventures, quirks, beliefs and wisdom of some of its famous followers … Carolan's wish with this collection is to safeguard the wisdom of these teachers for future generations. In doing so, he also takes his place as one of them." — Pacific Rim Review of Books"Congratulations to Trevor Carolan for creating a wise and excellent sequence of essays, accurate historical information, and interviews which provide very useful insights and Buddhist time-tracks to both Buddhist and non-Buddhist readers and researchers." — Ed Sanders, poet and historian"New World Dharma sheds light on a major development in literary and spiritual life by giving a personal, social, internal look into the lives of key Buddhist writers and leaders. In hindsight, it is clear that the influx of Asian spiritual teachings into the West instigated a cultural awakening of major proportion. This book provides a sense of how the fabric of this cultural awakening was woven, thread by thread, over several decades, as the people interviewed were all connected in some way." — Fran Grace, coeditor of Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies