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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Tribute to Gary Storhoff
Introduction: Some (Hollywood) Versions of Enlightenment
Part I. Representation and Intention
1. Buddhism and Authenticity in Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth
The Critical Reception of Heaven and Earth
Vietnamese Folk Beliefs and Buddhism
Buddhism, the Agrarian Family, and Vietnamese Ancestral Beliefs
Village Buddhism Transplanted to America
Notes
2. Buddhism, Children, and the Childlike in American Buddhist Films
Orientalism and Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhists Portrayed in Film: The Childlike and the Mature
Rites of Passage, Binary Divisions, and the Play of Opposites Observed
The Limits of Hollywood Appropriations of Tibetan Buddhism
An End to the Play of Opposites
Notes
3. Consuming Tibet: Imperial Romance and the Wretched of the Holy Plateau
Tibet as the Other of Imperial Fantasy
The Logic of Conquest
Shangri-La: Elegy of Utopia
Recreating Tibet in Post–Shangri-La Hollywood
Notes
4. Politics into Aesthetics: Cultural Translation in Kundun, Seven Years in Tibet, and The Cup
The Child in Translation
The Landscape in Translation
Translation of Politics and History
The Translation of Tibetan Buddhism
Part II. Allegories of Shadow and Light
5. Momentarily Lost: Finding the Moment in Lost in Translation
The Buddhist Attitude toward the Moment
Finding the Moment in Lost in Translation
Notes
6. Dying to Be Free: The Emergence of “American Militant Buddhism” in Popular Culture
The Awakening: “Your Anger Is a Gift”
Free Your Mind: The Matrix
You Are Not Your Khakis: Fight Club
A Culture of Regenerative Violence
Adaptations and Manipulations of Buddhism
The Dangers of a New Vehicle
Notes
7. Buddhism, Our Desperation, and American Cinema
The Buddhist Diagnosis of Our Desperation
Wall Street: A Parable of Greed
Annie Hall: Craving Sex and Relationship
Leaving Las Vegas: Craving Nonexistence
It’s a Wonderful Life: The Illusion of the Dream Self
Concluding Thoughts: Buddhist Echoes in American Films
Notes
8. Christian Allegory, Buddhism, and Bardo in Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko
Notes
9. “Beautiful Necessities”: American Beauty and the Idea of Freedom
Notes
Afterword: On Being Luminous
American Buddhism: An Idea Whose Practice Has Come
Toward Buddhist Criticism
Seeing Dharma through Cinema
Different Flavors for One Taste—(The Taste of Freedom)
Long Live Impermanence!
The Road Ahead
Bibliography
Filmography
About the Contributors
Index
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