As a practitioner and teacher of Buddhism, accomplished scientist and professorial researcher in behavioral biology and evolutionary psychology, Dr. John Hurrell Crook in this book has boldly taken up the challenge to go beyond the bag of skin, beyond the words and ideas that merely describe reality and realize the truth of our human existence. He has synthesized a compelling argument for a Buddhist humanism that eloquently integrates modern science and the practise and philosophy of Buddhism, resulting in a fresh way of understanding our responsibility as global citizens.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Hurrell Crook
John Hurrell Crook, PHD, DSc, formerly of the Department of Psychology, Bristol University, is a pioneer in socio-ecology and evolutionary psychology having led research with colleagues in field studies of birds, primates and human populations in Africa and India over many years. In 1977 he began a study of the indigenous psychiatry and social system of the Ladakhi people of the Buddhist Himalayas. This study, together with a personally intensive practice of Zen Buddhism with the Venerable chan Master Sheng-yen of Dharma Drum Mountain, Taiwan and new York, led him to this book. He is the first European Dharma Heir of the Master and the Teacher of the Western Chan Fellowship.
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