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Buddha Takes the Mound: Enlightenment in Nine Innings
By Lopez, Donald S. Jr
- ISBN
- 9781250237910
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Essentials
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Reviewed on February 7, 2020 | Arts
A ponderous game laden with interminable pauses, baseball lends itself to myth-making. It's a humbling pursuit with many analogies to Buddhism, argues Lopez (Buddhism: The Norton Anthology of World Religions), a fervid, lifetime fan of the New York Yankees. As a Buddhist scholar, he also cannot help but draw comparisons between his two obsessions. The conceit in this book is that a Buddhist scroll was f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
