Shakespeare understood and represented the human condition better than any writer of his time. As for the Buddha, he saw how to liberate us from that condition. Author Lauren Shufran explores the fascinating interplay of Western drama and Eastern philosophy by pairing quotes from Shakespeare with the tenets of an Eastern spiritual practice, sparking a compelling dialogue between the two. Theres a remarkable interchange of echoes between Shakespeares conception of the inward man and Buddhist approaches to recognizing, honoring, and working with our humanness as we play out our roles on the stage of our lives. The Buddha and the Bard synthesizes literature and scripture, embodied drama and transcendent practice, to shape a multifaceted lyric that we can apply as mindful practice in our own lives. Shufrans compelling juxtapositions will encourage the reader to ask the deepest questions of themselves while delighting in the play of resonances across a cultural and historical divide.
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Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
Publication Date: 05 Apr 2022
Publisher: Insight Editions
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781647224561
About Lauren ShufranMandala Publishing
Insight Editions is a publisher of illustrated books on photography music and popular culture. Elegant and informative their books showcase the best of art photography and design in exquisite presentations of the bookmaker's craft. They are located in San Rafael CA.Lauren Shufran holds an MA (English) and an MFA (Creative Writing: Poetry) from San Francisco State University and a PhD (Early Modern British Literature) from UC Santa Cruz. In her eight years of PhD candidacy at UCSC she taught a wide range of courses from creative writing to Biblical Poetics in Renaissance England to The English Sonnet Sequence; but Shakespeare was the course she taught most consistently. She discovered yoga meditation and mindfulness practices while writing her dissertation. Laurens first major publication was a book of poetry called Inter Arma (Fence Books 2013) which won the Motherwell Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan University Press) as well as in Postmodern Culture The Los Angeles Review of Books Emerge: An Anthology of Writing by Lambda Fellows and elsewhere over the years. Shes also had scholarly essays published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals. Lauren presently works as a ghostwriter and content strategist for a startup in San Francisco.