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  • Encountering famous East-West bridge persons across the U.S. to Japan

    Author(s):
    Steve McCarty (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, Global & Transnational Studies
    Subject(s):
    Asians--Religion, Japanese, Japanese Americans, Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lama Foundation, Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages, Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-, Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.), University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Item Type:
    Podcast
    Tag(s):
    japanese society, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Edwin O. Reischauer, Syncretism, Iconography, Asian Representation, English for Academic Purposes, baseball in Japan
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/11yp-nv22
    Abstract:
    This 23-minute presentation at the University of Hyogo in Kobe goes more deeply into the biography of Steve McCarty than appears in his long chapter in the new book A Passion for Japan: A Collection of Personal Narratives. Formative influences discussed include Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Tibetan yoga, and Zen. Places include Boston, the Taos Pueblo area of New Mexico, San Francisco, Honolulu, Shikoku island, and Osaka. People encountered include Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Durkee (Lama Foundation founder), Edwin O. Reischauer; and in Japan: Donald Keene and the Dalai Lama. Then brief stories about life in Japan include Steve’s international family, playing baseball, English teaching innovations, and research discovering Asian religions syncretized in a mandala of mountains. Steve has thus been an active witness of history as Eastern thought influenced the West, aspiring to be one of those bridge persons.
    Notes:
    This podcast will probably also appear on the Japancasting channel, a Japan-India collaboration of the World Association for Online Education (WAOE). If interested, search the Web for Japancasting. The illustrated slideshow, if desired, is among the author's CORE contributions as "Syncretism chapter in A Passion for Japan" under Presentations. The chapter is available free: just search for “Discovering Japanese Fusion of Religions on the Pilgrimage Island of Shikoku” on the Web.
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    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    8 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial

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