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	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

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