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Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other: The Nonduality of Personal and Social Transformation
David R Loy |Read more of: Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other: The Nonduality of Personal and Social TransformationPaper given at the conference "Western Buddhism: Engaged Buddhism?" by David Loy on 30-Sep-2011, Bristol UK.
Within Western Buddhism the importance of social engagement is now generally accepted; certainly many Buddhist individuals and groups are seriously involved in activities such as prison dharma, raising money for impoverished people, and so forth. But almost all such activities involve what…
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