Home > Books > Books by Title A-Z >   How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America By: Fields, Rick
	Our Price: $28.00 Members Price: $25.20 Author: Fields, Rick ISBN: 9780877736318 Publication Date: June 1992 Product Code: 5469 Qty:

Description   "This fascinating book delivers more than it promises. It takes the reader from the origins of Buddhism right up to the immediate past, through Buddhism's growth and spread in Asia to the personalities that opened it up to the West and those that brought it to America as well as those who were affected by Buddhism or nurtured it here. Fields possesses a clear style and infectious enthusiasm for his subject." ----Library Journal This new updated edition of How the Swans Came to the Lake includes much new information about recent events in Buddhist groups in America and discusses such issues as spiritual authority, the role of women, and social action. How the Swans Came to the Lake, Rick Fields, Shambhala Publications, 434 pages, $28.00

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item: Books Books > Books by Publisher Books > Books by Title A-Z Books > Books by Publisher > Shambhala Publications

	Lay Precepts By: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche $12.00
	Tibetan Book of the Dead By: Fremantle, Francesca and Chogyam Trungpa $12.95
	Profound Wisdom of the Heart Sutra By: Bokar Rinpoche $10.95
	Abhidharma Kosa Bhasyam By: Vasubandhu / Louis De La Vallee Poussin Tr. / Leo M. Pruden, Tr. $300.00
	Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation Through Mahamudra Meditation By: Traleg Rinpoche $16.95
	Developing a Spiritual Mind, a Public Talk on the Four Immeasurables, DVD By: Thrangu Rinpoche $15.00
	Mind Beyond Death, DVD By: Ponlop Rinpoche $48.00
	Relative and Absolute Bodhicitta By: Traleg Rinpoche $30.00
	Milarepa, His Life By: Bardor Tulku Rinpoche $30.00