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Abstract ................................................ ii
Acknowledgements .......................................... iii
Chapter lr Zen Buddhism and the Beat Generation ........... 1
1.0 State of the Puestion ............................ 1
1.1 Scope and Methodology ............................
1.2 Thesie and Argument ..............................
1.3 Contribution to Scholarship ......................
1.4 The Development of Buddhiem in China and Japan
1.5 The Cultural Background: Beat and square herica .
1.6 Conclusion .......................................
Chapter 2: The Practice of Beat Zen .......................
2.0 Views of Beat Zen Practice .......................
2.1 The Definition of Buddhist Practice ..............
2.2 Beat Zen and the Three Refuges ...................
2.3 The Beat Observation of the Five Precepts ........
2.4 Boddhisattva Vows and General Beat Zen Practice ..
a.5 Beat Zen Meditation: Zasan and K6ane .............
2.6 conclusion .......................................
Chapter 3: The Problem of Authority .......................
3.0 The weetion of authority ........................
3.1 Kerouac'a Authority ..............................
3.2.1 The Authority of Beat Zen: Scriptural ..........
3.2.2 The Authority ot Beat Zen: D . T . Suzuki and
Alan Watts .................................
3.2.3 The Authority of Beat Zen: Exemplary Figures ...
3.2.4 The Authority of Beat Zen: Personal Experience .
3.3 Conclusion .......................................
Chapter 4: Conclusion: The American hansfomtion of
Buddhism ...................................
4.0 The Analogy of Asian Buddhism ....................
4.1 Ch'an Lunatics and Dham Bums ...................
5.0 Bibliography ..........................................
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