The Sangha discuss how Buddhism spread to the West. #ashoka #blavatsky #thoreau
Buddhism in the United Kingdom
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Helena Blavatsky
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Henry Steel Olcott
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00:00 How did Buddhism come to the West? Disruption in China; intentional wandering; Asokha’s emissaries
05:33 The British in Sri Lanka; Thoreau, Emerson and Buddhism; Mme. Blavatsky, Olcott, and Krishnamurthi
09:09 D T Suzuki; Zen in California; lack of nobles in the West; cultural differences
14:28 Looking for nobility
15:49 Schopenhauer & Nietzsche; postmodern philosophers; consumerism
22:17 What’s the relationship between intellectuals and the rest of society?
24:27 Wholesome qualities in non-Western cultures; underlying anxiety and fear; questioning
30:23 Ignoble Buddhism in the West; the blind leading the blind
37:11 The Dhamma is difficult to understand without a teacher; nobles in the West are ignored
40:50 Kindling the fire of knowledge; rehabilitating the mind; good breathing
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