Re: Buddhism and Salinger as promised
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 08:05:37 -0400 (EDT)
Yeah, I have to admit, there is Definitely a specific brand of
Westernized Eastern philosophy floating around in the states. It seems
partly due to the fact of, well, simple cultural realities, partly due to
the fact that people introducing eastern thought into the west did so
concerned with making it palatable, plus the fact that they were
westerners themselves.
And then came the New Age movement--which I like to call McVedism. :)
But Salinger wrote prior to that time, really. I guess a good look at
the subject of Salinger and Buddhism would have to first define the
nature of western Easternism ( ;) ), contrast that to buddhism on its
home soil, then talk about Salinger's works.
Jim
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 21:02:56 -0400 Matt Kozusko
<mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu> writes:
>J J R wrote:
> > call. Yes, Salinger definitely presents a western version of
>eastern
>> thought. A westerner reading Eastern texts in English with a
>western
>> frame of mind will, no doubt, even then be getting a western version
> of
>> eastern thoughts...
>>
>
>That's more or less what I had in mind.
>
>--
>Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
>
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