Gary Snyder's American-Asian Shamanism.

The Comparatist | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

In Kyoto on 15 June 1956, in the second month of his first long sojourn in Asia, the young Gary Snyder (1930-) already found evidence of what he called "American-Asian shamanism": "Leaving the temple this morning walked by a small fox shrine where a Zen monk was chanting: there I heard the subtle steady single-beat of oldest American-Asian shamanism. The basic song" (Earth 35). The passage indicates that Snyder sensed traces of shamanism in both contemporary Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism, since the chant was uttered by a Buddhist monk, whereas the shrine's fox-spirit image ...

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