David Loy

David Robert Loy (born 1947 ) is an American philosopher , author, and licensed teacher of the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism .

biography

Early life

Loy was born in the Panama Canal region. His father was in the US Navy , so his family had to travel a lot. He attended Carleton College , Minnesota, and spent his youth studying philosophy at King's College London . After graduating in 1969, he went to San Francisco and then to Hawaii , where he began to practice Zen Buddhism.

Zen studies

In 1971 he began to practice Zen with Yamada Koun Roshi and Robert Aitken in Hawaii.

In 1984 Loy moved to Kamakura, Japan to continue practicing Zen with Yamada Koun Roshi , the director of Sanbo Kyodan.

He completed his formal koan studies with Yamada Koun in 1988 and received the dharma name Tetsu-un, "wise cloud".

Career

His main research interest is the dialogue between Buddhism and modernity, especially the effects of Buddhist teachings on society. In addition to his scientific lectures, he offers workshops and lectures and leads meditation courses in the USA and internationally.

Loy received his Master of Arts in Asian Philosophy from the University of Hawaii in 1975, and his Dr. in Philosophy in 1984 from the National University of Singapore .

He was a senior philosophy teacher at the Department of Singapore University from 1978 to 1984.

In 1990 he was a philosophy professor at Bunkyo University in Chigasaki, Japan until January 2006 when he accepted the Besl Family Chair of Ethics / Religion & Society, a temporary position at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio , which ended in September 2010.

In June 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from Carleton College , his alma mater, for his contribution to Buddhism in the West. He returned this award in April 2016 in protest at the college administration's decision not to divest from fossil fuel companies .

He offers lectures, workshops and retreat meditations on various topics, with a primary focus on the influence of Buddhism on modernity. He is particularly interested in social and environmental problems.

Publications

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In addition to his scientific publications, Loy is the author of various books on comparative philosophy and social ethics:

• Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1988). A paperback edition was published by Humanities Press in 1997. A German edition (translated by Clemens Wilhelm) was published as Nondualität: On the Nature of Reality by Krüger, Frankfurt, in 1998. A Spanish edition (translated by Fernando Mora and David Gonzalez Raga) was published as No dualidad by the Kairos Press in 2000. Correction by Robert Zeuschner and Karl H. Potter.
• Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996). Awarded the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies' Frederick J. Streng Book Prize in 1999 for the best book of the year. A paperback edition was published by Humanity Books in 2000. ( review review 2 )
• A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack (SUNY Press, 2002).
• The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003).
• The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons: Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004).
• Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution (Wisdom Publications, 2008). Translated into: Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, Korean, Thai, Japanese and Estonian.
• Awareness Bound and Unbound: Buddhist Essays (SUNY Press, 2009).
• The World Is Made of Stories (Wisdom Publications, 2010).
• A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World (Wisdom Publications, 2015).
• Awakening in the age of climate change . In: Buddhismus Aktuell , year 2016, issue 2, p. 25.

Private life

He is married to Linda Goodhew, a former professor of English-language literature at Gakushūin University in Tokyo, Japan, and co-author of The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons . They live near Boulder, Colorado and have a son, Mark Loy Goodhew.

Web links

• David Loy organization
• Literature by and about David Loy in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lack and Liberation in Self and Society An Interview with David Loy ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ David Loy Interview ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Sweeping Zen  
3. ↑ Lack and Liberation in Self and Society: An Interview with David Loy ( Memento of the original of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Previous Besl Family Chairs ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} David Loy webpage
6. ^ Philip Weyhe: International lecturer returns honorary Carleton degree in protest of fossil fuel investments . In: Northfield News . April 22, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
7. ↑ Review author [s]: Robert B. Zeuschner. Buddhist-Christian Studies , Vol. 10, 1990 (1990), pp. 300-302. doi : 10.2307 / 1390225
8. ↑ Review author [s]: Karl H. Potter. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Vol. 51, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 733-735 doi : 10.2307 / 2107905 .