Preface ; General Introduction ; Introduction to Asian Religions ; PART 1. ORIENTATIONS, 1784-1840 ; Introduction ; 1. Views from Abroad ; Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels (1817) ; Christian Disciple, An Account of the Sikhs in India (1814) ; Mr. Morrison's Letter from China (1809) ; Adoniram and Ann Judson, A Mission in Burma (1832) ; 2. Views from Home ; Benjamin Franklin's Oriental Tale (1788) ; Joseph Priestley, A Comparison of the Institutions of Moses with those of the Hindoos and Other Ancient Nations (1799) ; John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (1813-14) ; William Bentley on Asian Trade in Salem (1794-1804) ; Hannah Adams, Dictionary of All Religions (1817) ; Charles A. Goodrich, Asian Religious Ceremonies and Customs (1832) ; PART 2. ENCOUNTERS, 1840-1924 ; 3. East to America: Immigrant Landings ; Frederick Douglass, Our Composite Nationality (1869) ; Fung Chee Pang, The Chines Sage and the Mongolian Bible (1876) ; Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) ; Frederick J. Masters, Pagan Temples in San Francisco (1892) ; Shuye Sonoda to Paul Carus (1899) ; Saint Nihal Singh, The Picturesque Immigrant From India's Coral Strand (1909) ; Swami Paramananda, Christ and Oriental Ideals (1923) ; United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) ; 4. Romancing the Orient: Literary Passages ; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plato and Brahma (1850, 1857) ; Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) ; Bret Harte, The Heathen Chinee (1870) ; Walt Whitman, Passage to India (1871) ; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) ; 5. Journeys in the Study ; Webster's Dictionary on Hinduism and Buddhism (1828, 1849, 1864) ; Lydia Maria Child, The Progress of Religious Ideas (1855) ; James Freeman Clarke, Ten Great Religions (1871) ; 6. Postcards for the Pews: Missionaries and Their Critics ; M. L. Gordon, An American Missionary in Japan (1892) ; Mark Twain, The United States of Lyncherdom (1901) ; Myra E. Withee, Is Buddhism to Blame? (1902) ; 7. The World's Parliament of Religions ; John Henry Barrows, Words of Welcome (1893) ; Swami Vivekananda, Hinduism (1893) ; Anagarika Dharmapala, Thw World's Debt to Buddha (1893) ; Soyen Shaku, Reply to a Christian Critic (1896) ; 8. Turning East: Sympathesizers and Converts ; Henry Steel Olcott, The Buddhist Catechism (1900, 1881) ; Sister Christine, Memories of Swami Vivekananda (1945) ; Paul Carus, The Dharma (1898) ; Marie Canavarro, Insight into the Far East (1925) ; William Sturgis Bigelow to Kwanryo Naobayashi (1895) ; PART 3. EXCLUSION, 1924-1965 ; Introduction ; 9. Closed Ports and Open Camps ; Asian Exclusion Act (1924) ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order No. 9066 (1942) ; Nyogen Senzaki, Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy (1978) ; Shigeo Kikuchi, Memoirs of a Buddhist Woman Missionary in Hawaii (1991) ; Julius Goldwater, Wartime Buddhist Liturgy (1940s) ; 10. Hindu Crossings: Gurus and Disciples ; Krishnalal Shridharani, Hindus are Human Beings (1941) ; Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) ; Krishnamurti, The Turning Point (1975) ; John Yale, What Vendanta Means to me (1960) ; 11. Buddhist Crossings: Masters and Students ; D. T. Suzuki, What is Zen? (1959) ; Dwight Goddard, Followers of Buddha: An American Brotherhood (1934) ; Jack Kerouac, Dharma Burns (1958) ; Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen: A Method for Religious Awakening (1959) ; Elson B. Snow, Entry into the Dharma Gate (1994) ; 12. Artists, Preachers, and Missionaries ; E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Indian Road (1925) ; Mersene Sloan, The Indian Menace 91929) ; Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman, Meet Mahatma Gandhi (1936) ; John Cage, Lecture on Nothing (1949) ; PART 4. PASSAGES, 1965 TO THE PRESENT ; Introduction ; 13. Countercultural Appropriations ; Alan Watts, Beginning a Counterculture (1972) ; Timothy Leary, The Buddha as Drop-Out (1968) ; Ram Dass, The Only Dance There Is (1974) ; 14. Asian Indian Gurus, Converts, and Movements ; A TM Catechism (1975) ; The Beatles and A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Pradhupada, Search for Liberation (1970) ; Yogi Bhajan, Awakening the Mind to Prayer (1984) ; Margaret Simpson, An Experience of Siddha Yoga Meditation (1991) ; Swami Satchidananda, Integral Yoga (1996) ; Sai Bab a and the Resurrection of Walter Cowan (1976) ; 15. Buddhist Teachers, Converts, Movements ; Shunryu Suzuki, Posture (1970) ; Chogyam Trungpa, Meditation in Action (1969) ; Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) ; An Interview with Roshi Jiyu Kennett (1986) ; Women, Buddhism, and Vipassana Meditation (1991) ; Bell Hooks, Waking Up to Racism (1994) ; Jacci Thompson-Dodd, The Power of the Soka Gakkai's Chanting (1996) ; Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields, Recipes for Social Change (1996) ; 16. Indian Immigrants: Hindu, Jain, and Sikh ; Anand Mohan, The Pilgrimage (1994) ; Rituals at Sri Venkateswara Temple (1995) ; Sri Ganesha Temple, Nashville: Recounting History and Nuturing Youth (1985-96) ; Hinduism in the Public Realm: Hinduism Today on Christianity and Cloning (1996) ; Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago, A Promising Future (1993) ; Sikh Religious Society, Things That Make You Ask 'Kion' (1994) ; 17. Buddhist Immigrants ; The Buddha's Birthday in a Vietnamese-American Temple (1986) ; The Dalai Lama Meets the Buddhist Sangha Council of Southern California (1989) ; Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara's Tenth Anniverary (1990 ; Later Generations of Japanese Americans on Jodo Shinshu (1990) ; Thai Youth Club, DJ or Not We're Still Upset (1994) ; Hsi Lai Temple, Buddhist Teaching Coming to the West (1997) ; 18. Asian Religions in American Culture ; Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975) ; Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh (1982) ; Gary Synder, Smokey and the Bear Sutra (1969) ; An Interview with Composer Philip Glass (1991) ; The Beastie Boys, Bodhisattva Vow (1994) ; Children Respond to The Little Buddha (1994) ; Phil Jackson, If You meet the Buddha in the Lane, Feed Him the Ball (1995) ; Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife (1991) ; 19. Inter-Religious Dialogue ; Thomas Merton, Letter from Asia (1968) ; Masao Ave and John Cobb, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (1981) ; Rodger Kamenetz, The Jew in the Lotus (1994) ; The Parliament of the World's Religions Centennial (1993) ; Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (1985) ; 20. Mapping Legal Boundaries: Religion and State ; Justin William Douglas, Asian Religions According to the Supreme Court (1965) ; U. S. Supreme Court, Even Buddhist Prisoners Have Rights (1972) ; Chief Justice William Rehnquist, The Krishna Religion (1992) ; Sikj Kirpans in the Schools (1994) ; A Vietnamese Home Temple Zoning Dispute (1996) ; Chronology ; Further Reading ; Index
