Buddhist Revivalist Movements

Alan Robert Lopez, Ph.D. was born and raised in New York City. He maintained a psychotherapy private practice in New England for more than twenty years and was a trainer in multi-year training programs for mental health professionals in the USA and Germany. Dr. Lopez has taught Buddhism at several universities in the US and Thailand, and been the Director of the Buddhist Forum, the educational department of the World Buddhist Fellowship. Dr. Lopez has had extensive exposure to Buddhism in each of its primary branches placing him in a unique position to comparatively study its schools and practices.

ENTERING THE MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS.- STREAMS AND SOURCES, FORESTS AND MOUNTAINS.- FISH SAUCE AND PLUMS: TEACHING TACTICS.- WARRIORS OF THE WAY: PRACTICE AND PATH.- AWAKENINGS.- LIVES OF THE AWAKENED.- PURE MIND: THE FIFTH NOBLE TRUTH.- VIEW, EMPTINESS, NOWNESS, AND SKILLFUL MEANS.- MEETING OF THE TWAIN: REVIVALISM AND MODERNITY.- CONCLUSION.