Contents: HOW THE SWANS CAME TO THE LAKE: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America
	Author's Note	xiii
	ATTENTION: PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY	1
	BOOK ONE
1.	TURNING THE WHEEL	4
	The Life of Shakyamuni Buddha, The Growth of Buddhism in India and Asia, Its Destruction in India
2.	EAST AND WEST: THE CENTRAL REGION	13
	The Shifting Poles: Aryas and Persians; Greece and India: Ashoka, The Early Western View of Buddhism, Fu-sang and the Chinese Discovery of America
3.	THE MINE OF SANSKRIT	31
	Asia and America, Europe and China, First Translations From the Sanskrit, Sanskrit As the Mother Tongue: The Laws of Manu
4.	THE RESTLESS PIONEERS	54
	New England, India and The China Trade: Sir William Jones and the Transcendentalists, Bronson Alcott and Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia
5.	GOLD MOUNTAIN AND RICE BOWL COUNTRY: THE FIRST CHINESE AND JAPANESE IN AMERICA	70
	The Chinese in California, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, Perry and the Opening of Japan, The First-Year-Men in Hawaii, Japanese Immigrants in America
6.	THE WHITE BUDDHISTS: COLONEL OLCOTT, MADAME BLAVATSKY AND THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY	83
	American Spiritualism, HPB's Isis Unveiled, The Theosophists in India and Ceylon, Rhys-Davids and the Pali Canon, Dharmapala and the Fight for Bodh-Gaya, Toward the World Parliament
7.	HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF: THE WORLD PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS	119
	Controversy and Response, Pung Kwang Yu's Confucian Speech, Soyen Shaku and the Japanese Delegation, Mr. C.T. Strauss of New York Takes Refuge
8.	IN THE WAKE OF THE PARLIAMENT	130
	Philangi Dasa and The Buddhist Ray, Dharmapala's Return to America, His Last Years in India
9.	THE BOSTON BUDDHISTS: AN INTERLUDE	146
	Professor Edward Morse and Ernest Fenollosa in Japan, The Discovery of Japanese Art, Teddy Roosevelt and George Cabot Lodge, Fenollosa, Pound and Chinese Poetry
	BOOK TWO
10.	HOLDING THE LOTUS TO THE ROCK: 1905-1945	168
	Soyen Shaku and Mrs. Russell, Alan Watts, Sokei-an, Ruth Fuller Sasaki and the First Zen Institute of America, The War and the "Relocation Camps"
11.	THE FIFTIES: BEAT AND SQUARE	195
	D.T. Suzuki at Columbia, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, Alan Watts's Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen
12.	AND ROUND: THE SIXTIES	225
	Shunryu Suzuki-roshi and Beginner's Mind, Zen and the Counterculture, Philip Kapleau's Three Pillars of Zen
13.	WHEN THE IRON BIRD FLIES	273
	The Dalai Lama and the Chinese, The Tibetan Exile, Geshe Wangyal and the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America, Chogyam Trungpa in England
14.	IN THE LAND OF THE RED MAN	304
	Tarthang Tulku in Berkely, Kalu Rinpoche and the Three Year Retreat, Osel Tendzin's Journey
15.	THE OTHER ZEN AND THE PURE LAND: THE CHINESE, KOREANS AND VIETNAMESE	339
	Master Hsuan Hua, Gold Mountain MOnastery and the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Thich Nhat Hanh
16.	THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD	359
	Chogyam Trungpa's Cremation, Social Action, Feminism, Psychotherapy, The Dalai Lama in America, Conclusion
	Sources and Notes	381
	Index	426