The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Dust jacket notes: "This selection by Kenneth Rexroth of Lafcadio Hearn's essays, sketches, and stories establishes Hearn as the primary influence in the dissemination of Buddhist thought and practice from Japan to the United States. This final bridge completed a centuries-long flow of Buddhist ideas from India to China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, and other parts of Asia, and thence via Hearn to the United States. Modern scholars are now agreed that no writer since Hearn has surpassed his ability to make Buddhism as practiced on a daily basis by the Japanese understood by the average American reader...."