Stirring the Victorian Imagination
Edwin Arnold's poem The Light of Asia helped 19th century Americans think favorably of the Buddha.
Wendell Piez
Wendell Piez teaches English and works in the Special Collections and Archives of Rutgers University.
Anonymous Was a Woman—Again
In the Winter 1992 issue of Tricycle, I reaffirmed one of the most cherished claims of American Buddhism. The first known translation from a Buddhist sutra into English, I wrote, was “The Preaching of Buddha,” an…
The Rain of Law
Thoreau's translation of the Lotus Sutra
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