Romantic Dharma maps the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the nineteenth century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into contemporary critical and pedagogical practices.

Autorentext
MARK LUSSIER Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA.

Inhalt
The Most Sublime Act' Buddhism and Romanticism The Strange Case of Alexander Csoma de Körös Romanticism's Four Noble Truths Inner Revolutions: Self-Annihilation in Blake and Shelley The Romantic Book of the Dead