Jack Kerouac’s Buddhism

Next Tuesday is the official publication of the latest in the series of posthumous Jack Kerouac collections from Rare Bird and the Kerouac Estate and it’s a significant one,
Jack Kerouac’s The Buddhist YearsCharles Shuttleworth‘s collection of Kerouac’s Buddhist writings. We already noted it this past January and noted two early reviews. Marc Olmsted in Beatdom here – and Nina Živančević in Rock and The Beat Generation – here

See also Shuttleworth’s writing – here

Allen’s essay, “Negative Capability – Kerouac’s Buddhist Ethic”

and, for a wider context his1993 lecture – here, here and here

and also more on this particular subject) – here 

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