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Part reception history, part religious studies, part cultural history, part art history, Long Strange Journey is a much-needed, erudite study of the ways in which East Asian Zen has been woven into the fabric of cultures outside Japan. A few works have touched on the subjects covered here, but there is to my knowledge no book that addresses these with as much depth and sophistication. -- Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University In the West, Zen continues to captivate a variety of groups with diverse interests--from the scholarly to the artistic to the corporate. Long Strange Journey offers a highly original analysis of this widespread and largely postwar American phenomenon, which the author cleverly calls the Zenny zeitgeist. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make sense of the ubiquity of Zen in our times. -- Noriko Murai, Sophia University Part reception history, part religious studies, part cultural history, part art history, Long Strange Journey is a much-needed, erudite study of the ways in which East Asian Zen has been woven into the fabric of cultures outside Japan. A few works have touched on the subjects covered here, but there is to my knowledge no book that addresses these with as much depth and sophistication.-- Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University In the West, Zen continues to captivate a variety of groups with diverse interests--from the scholarly to the artistic to the corporate. Long Strange Journey offers a highly original analysis of this widespread and largely postwar American phenomenon, which the author cleverly calls the Zenny zeitgeist. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make sense of the ubiquity of Zen in our times.-- Noriko Murai, Sophia University

Part reception history, part religious studies, part cultural history, part art history, Long Strange Journey is a much-needed, erudite study of the ways in which East Asian Zen has been woven into the fabric of cultures outside Japan. A few works have touched on the subjects covered here, but there is to my knowledge no book that addresses these with as much depth and sophistication. -- Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University In the West, Zen continues to captivate a variety of groups with diverse interests--from the scholarly to the artistic to the corporate. Long Strange Journey offers a highly original analysis of this widespread and largely postwar American phenomenon, which the author cleverly calls the Zenny zeitgeist. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make sense of the ubiquity of Zen in our times. -- Noriko Murai, Sophia University

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Gregory P. A. Levine is associate professor of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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