TY - BOOK AU - Baldoquin, Hilda Gutierrez. TI - Dharma, color, and culture: new voices in Western Buddhism SN - 1888375426 (pbk.) U1 - 294.34442 PY - 2004/// CY - Berkeley PB - Parallax Press KW - Religious life -- Buddhism KW - Buddhism -- Doctrines KW - Four Noble Truths N1 - FOREWORD; Kamala Masters INTRODUCTION SECTION ONE: THE TRUTH OF SUFFERING Maxine Hong Kingston / Fire Earthlyn Marselean Manuel / Bearing Up in the Wild Winds Marlene Jones, Ed.D. / Moving toward an End to Suffering Eduardo Duran, Ph.D. / Buddhism in the Land of the Redface JosÄ Luis Reissig / What Are We to Do with Our Enclosures? SECTION TWO: THE TRUTH OF THE ORIGIN OF SUFFERING Thich Nhat Hanh / The Nobility of Suffering Ralph M. Steele / When Craving Becomes Your Friend Michele Benzamin-Miki / To Love Unconditionally is Freedom George T. Mumford / Mind Like a Mirror Sala Steinbach / The Stories I Live With SECTION THREE: THE TRUTH OF THE CESSATION OF SUFFERING Gaylon Ferguson / Liberation from Suffering Reverend Merle Kodo Boyd / A Child of the South in Long Black Robes Mushim Ikeda-Nash / Birthing and Blooming Viveka Chen/ Finding True Freedom Sister Chan Chau Nghiem / Coming Home SECTION FOUR: THE TRUTH OF THE PATH TO THE END OF SUFFERING Charles Johnson / Reading the Eightfold Path Larry Yang/ Staying on Your Seat: The Practice of Right Concentration Bonnie Duran / Race, Racism, and the Dharma Reverend Kenneth Kenshin Tanaka / Right Action, Buddhism, and Our Participation in the World Reverend Hilda GutiÄrrez BaldoquÆn / Don't Waste Time SECTION FIVE: THE TRUTH OF BRINGING THE TEACHINGS HOME Alice Walker / This Was Not an Area of Large Plantations Rosa Zubizarreta / "How Can I Be a Buddhist If I Don't Like to Sit?" Lourdes Argƒelles and Anne Rivero / Internal Disarmament Julia Sagebien, Ph.D. / Carrying the Dharma en Espaûol Jan Willis /Dharma Has No Color CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENT ER -