Beat Buddhism (from "Enlightened America?")

Spearheaded by literary figures such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder - the 1950’s marked the emergence of the Beat generation in the United States. Brian talks with scholar Kyle Garton-Gundling about how the Beats spread Buddhism in America, the unique brand of American Buddhism they espoused, and why Buddhism and other Eastern religions have been associated with the counterculture ever since.