The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. Literature as Vehicle: Transmission and Transformation -- 1. The Emptiness of Patterned Flux: Ernest Fenollosa's Buddhist Essay: "The Chinese Writt en Character as a Medium for Poetry" -- 2. Gary Snyder's Selective Way to Cold Mountain: Domesticating Han Shan -- 3. John Giorno: Buddhism, Poetry, and Transgression -- 4. Buddhadharma and Poetry without Credentials -- PART II. Zen, Vajrayana,and the Avante-Garde: A Pluralistic Poetics -- 5. Finger Pointing at the Moon: Zen and the Poetry of Philip Whalen -- 6. Keeping Vision Alive: Th e Buddhist Stillpoint in the Work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- 7. Illumination Through the Cracks: The Melting Down of Conventional Socio-Religious Thought and Practice in the Work of Gary Snyder -- 8. The American Poetic Diamond Vehicle: Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman Re-work Vajrayana Buddhism -- PART III. Widening the Circle: Buddhism and American Writers of Color -- 9. Buddhism, the Chinese Religion,and the Ceremony of Writing: An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston -- 10. A Bridge between Two Worlds: Crossing to America in Monkey Bridge -- Afterword -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.