http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4119 2013-05-22T19:29:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4123 Common on garden Dharma : essay on contemporary Buddhism, Volume 2 Clasquin-Johnson, Michel Volume I in this series ended up more unified than I had planned. There are a few shorter pieces in it that are apropos of nothing at all, but for most of it, now that I read it again, I see how it reflects my own astonishment at finding myself teaching Buddhism in a faculty of Christian theology, at a university in an overwhelmingly Christian country. My efforts to see how Buddhism reacts to history, other religions, mythical patterns and society at large was also an effort to make sense of my own situation. I ended up getting caught in my own little Grand Narrative. No such deficiency will be found in this volume. This, I promise, is a truly random, chaotic, farraginous gallimaufry of pieces that bear no relationship to one another whatsoever. I am really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. If you are a graduate student far in the future thinking of writing a dissertation on "A Unifying Theme in Volume 2 of Clasquin-Johnson's Common or Garden Dharma", I have one question for you. Do you believe in ghosts? Refer to the publisher's website to view the full text in other formats. 2011-03-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4122 Common or garden Dharma : essays on contemporary Buddhism. Volume 1 Clasquin-Johnson, Michel The emergence of e-books has created new opportunities for academic authors. Like many academics, there are a number of shorter works that I have published over the years for which I never signed away the electronic publishing rights - mostly because they didn't exist at the time! Some of these started out as academic articles and have needed to be rewritten extensively to appeal to a broader audience. Others were always written in a more popular style, but were tucked away in newsletters that were not archived effectively, or appeared in now-defunct websites. A few were published in books that went out of print years ago. Refer to the publisher's webside to view full text in other formats. 2011-01-13T00:00:00Z