Contents

• Titlepage
• Table of Contents
• Cover
• Copyright
• Quotes
• Acknowledgements
• Questioning Buddhist Romanticism
  • How to Read this Book
• Dramatis Personae
  • The Buddha
  • Five Early Romantics
    • Novalis (1772–1801)
    • Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829)
    • Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)
    • Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843)
    • Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854)
    • Shaping the Romantic Experience
• An Ancient Path
  • Suffering, Its Cause, Its Cessation
  • The Path
  • How the Buddha Taught
  • Keeping the Path Open
• An Age of Tendencies
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Philosophy
    • Kant
    • Fichte
    • Schiller
    • Herder
    • Plato
  • Literature
• The Romantic Universe
  • Symphilosophy
    • Unity
    • Organic
    • Infinite
  • The Attractions of Freedom
  • The Romantic Program
• Romantic Religion
  • The Religious Experience
  • Religious Bildung
  • Schleiermacher’s Reception
  • Recognizing Romantic Religion
• The Transmission of Romantic Religion
  • Emerson
  • Psychology of Religion
    • James
    • Jung
    • Maslow
  • History of Religions
    • Hegel
    • Romanticism in Modern Scholarship
  • Perennial Philosophy
  • The Cumulative Transmission
• Buddhist Romanticism
  • Voices of Buddhist Romanticism
  • The Appeal of Buddhist Romanticism
  • Buddhist Romanticism vs. the Dhamma
  • The Ironies of Buddhist Romanticism
• Unromantic Dhamma
  • The Discovery of the Dhamma
  • The Problem of Dukkha
  • Skill in Questions
  • Kamma & Further Becoming
  • Desire
  • Questions of Self & Not-self
  • Separateness & Oneness
  • Feeding
  • Heedfulness vs. Innate Goodness
  • Mindfulness & Ardency
  • The Essence of the Dhamma
  • The Only Path
  • Right View
  • The Survival of the True Dhamma
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• Endnotes
  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
• Bibliography