by Frédéric Lenoir · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213601038
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«La rencontre du bouddhisme et de l'Occident» is the historical essay by Frédéric Lenoir on the encounter between Buddhism and Western thought, published by Fayard in paperback (393 pages, in French).
The book traces, from Alexander the Great and Marco Polo to Schopenhauer, Jung or Allen Ginsberg, the major stages of Buddhism's arrival in the West and the reinterpretations it has undergone as it filtered through Western cultural imaginaries, such as the myth of magical Tibet. It also explains the current rise of Buddhism in Europe and the United States as a response to the decline of the great ideologies, and analyzes its appeal as a secular spirituality, humanist philosophy and ethics of responsibility oriented to contemporary challenges.
Work by the philosopher and historian of religions Frédéric Lenoir, originally published in France in 1999.
Frédéric Lenoir is a French sociologist, philosopher and writer.
