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A well-written and accessible academic history recommended for practitioners and students of Zen. Most readers might be surprised by the practice's support of Japanese modernization and even military imperialism leading up to World War II.
In some ways complementing Jon Canon's The Secret Language of Sacred Spaces, this is an elegant and sensitive book. Highly recommended to general readers open to a different perspective on religious practice.
Recommended for those seeking a highly comparative, somewhat academic, and lavishly illustrated treatment of the study of world religions as reflected in the design and execution of their sacred spaces.
Highly recommended for serious students of Buddhist studies who may also be interested in Lopez's excellent The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography and his Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Those seeking a more biographical treatment of the Buddha and his teachings will be greatly rewarded with Karen Armstrong's Buddha.
Well written and about as friendly a read as a revised dissertation can be. Recommended for students of the migration of Buddhism to the West. Douglas Veenhof's White Lama: The Life of Tantric Yogi Theos Bernard, Tibet's Lost Emissary to the New World is a recent trade title on the same subject.
Highly recommended for those with at least an intermediate interest in Quakerism along with Emilie Griffin and Douglas V. Steere's Quaker Spirituality and Mary Garman and others' Hidden in Plain Sight: Quaker Women's Writings, 1650–1700. Readers new to Quakerism should start with Geoffrey Durham's The Spirit of the Quakers, reviewed above. Those seeking further study should visit Hamm's curated Digital Quaker Collection at Earlham's School of Religion (www.esr.earlham.edu/dqc/index.html).