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Kamenetz perceptively and astutely detailed the participants' varying ways of relating to Buddhism, including his own, it became a kind of BuJu bible. It did not recount history so much as make it. It would not be an exaggeration to divide American Buddhist Jewish life into the time before and after Lotus's publication."
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summarizes the book's impact, "Outside the academy, by far the most influential text on
Buddhism and Judaism is Rodger Kamenetz's 1994 bestseller, The Jew in the Lotus. On one level, Lotus is a travelogue, recounting a historic (or quixotic) meeting between an assortment of rabbis and the Dalai Lama.
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for Tibet, uniting the Jewish memory of slavery and oppression in Egypt long ago with the lack of religious freedom in today's Tibet under
Chinese rule. A special seder was held in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 1997 and attended by the Dalai Lama, as well as by numerous U.S. dignitaries and
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cited its broader relevance as a book "about the survival of esoteric traditions in a world bent on destroying them." The book was primarily potent in capturing an ongoing engagement in the US between Jews, often highly secularized, and
Buddhist teachings. Kamenetz popularized the term
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Kamenetz has been instrumental in shaping and articulating Natural Dreamwork a phenomenological approach focused on strong feelings held by the images in dreams.
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Chinese government detainment. The world's youngest prisoner of conscience, the Panchen Lama's eighth birthday fell during the first week of Passover. Struck by this coincidence, Kamenetz created a nationwide campaign of
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Angeles and Boston, and subsequently on Independent Lens on September 1, 1999. Kamenetz followed
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Thought in 1997. Kamenetz interviews a number of Jewish leaders who attempt to blend together Jewish mysticism, feminism and innovations in prayer and meditation practice. Among them were Rabbis
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where he was also an LSU Distinguished
Professor and Erich and Lea Sternberg Honors Professor. He works privately with clients, using dreams in a process of spiritual direction. Kamenetz is married to
193:'s use of a lower case spelling of "jew" in his poetry; another retells an incident in which "Allen Ginsberg Forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews." Kamenetz's sixth book of poetry, "
221:(University of Arkansas, 1985) and reprinted by Schocken Books in 1999. The book is structured as the interpretation of a single dream of his late mother, which Kamenetz modeled on
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of the Beastie Boys. The seder, as well as Kamenetz's visit with the Dalai Lama in 1997 was featured in the 1999 documentary,
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