Frederik L. Schodt

My Heart Sutra (eBook, ePUB)

A World in 260 Characters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• few authors have the ability to cover such a wide range of material in primary sources and still write to a general trade audience.
• not a spiritual quest or a religious tract, this book is an absorbing intellectual aexploration of a religious text that is both meaningful and talismanic
• The Heart Sutra is one of the most important scriptural texts in the Mahayana Buddhist School, the largest branch with around 185 million adherents worldwide.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra
  
  https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/demographics-of-buddhism
• In 2012, San Diego Union-Tribune estimated U.S. practitioners at 1.2 million people, of whom 40% are living in Southern California. In terms of percentage, Hawaii has the most Buddhists at 8% of the population due to its large Asian American community.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_United_States
• The Buddhist Churches of America, for example, operates 60 churches nationally with 16,000 members.
• Millions of Americans practice Buddhism. But the appeal of Buddhist thought extends even into non-Buddhist circles as varieties of self-help, business advice, etc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611729443
• Artikelnr.: 60434046

Autorenporträt

Frederik L. Schodt is an author and translator of impressive breadth. He has written extensively on Japanese pop culture, technology, and history. His books include Dreamland Japan, America and the Four Japans, and Native American in the Land of the Shogun, which was a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title in 2005. In 1998, Schodt translated and annotated Japanese immigrant Henry Kiyama's The Four Immigrants Manga, one of the first American original comic books; graphic novelist Will Eisner called the book "a treasure [that] belongs in every library."



In 2009, Schodt was awarded the prestigious Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, by the Japanese emperor for his contribution "to the introduction and promotion of Japanese contemporary popular culture in the United States of America. He is also a recipient of the Japan Foundation Award for 2017.



Schodt has lectured at venues worldwide, including San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Art Gallery, Temple University Japan, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco.