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|bio=Rick Fields (1942–1999) was a journalist, poet, and leading authority on Buddhism's history and development in the United States.
  
 
Mr. Field helped found ''Tricycle: The Buddhist Review'' in 1991 and had worked for the magazine as a contributing editor.
 
Mr. Field helped found ''Tricycle: The Buddhist Review'' in 1991 and had worked for the magazine as a contributing editor.
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Mr. Fields wrote several books, the best known of which is ''How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America'' (Shambhala, 1981).
 
Mr. Fields wrote several books, the best known of which is ''How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America'' (Shambhala, 1981).
  
The book traces Buddhism's origins in the United States from Chinese railroad workers and American transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century, to Japanese immigrants on the West Coast at the turn of the century, to the writer Alan Watts and Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg in the 1950's, to the mass popularity of Zen Buddhism and the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism in the 1960's and 70's. ([https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/11/us/rick-fields-57-poet-and-expert-on-buddhism.html Adapted from Source Dec 6, 2023]0
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The book traces Buddhism's origins in the United States from Chinese railroad workers and American transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century, to Japanese immigrants on the West Coast at the turn of the century, to the writer Alan Watts and Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg in the 1950's, to the mass popularity of Zen Buddhism and the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism in the 1960's and 70's.
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Fields was also the author of several other books, including ''Chop Wood, Carry Water'' and ''The Code of the Warrior''. ([https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/11/us/rick-fields-57-poet-and-expert-on-buddhism.html Adapted from Source Dec 6, 2023]0
 
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==Full Name==
 
Rick Fields
 
== Affiliation ==
 
 
== Education ==
 
== Other Information ==
 
Rick Fields (1942–1999) is the author of several books, including Chop Wood, Carry Water and The Code of the Warrior. He has served as the editor of The Vajradhatu Sun, an international journal of Buddhism (now Shambhala Sun), and as the editor-at-large of Tricycle: A Buddhist Review.                      [http://www.shambhala.com/authors/a-f-1/rick-fields.html |Source]
 
 
== Publications ==
 
 
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Rick Fields (1942–1999) was a journalist, poet, and leading authority on Buddhism's history and development in the United States.

Mr. Field helped found Tricycle: The Buddhist Review in 1991 and had worked for the magazine as a contributing editor.

Mr. Fields wrote several books, the best known of which is How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Shambhala, 1981).

The book traces Buddhism's origins in the United States from Chinese railroad workers and American transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century, to Japanese immigrants on the West Coast at the turn of the century, to the writer Alan Watts and Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg in the 1950's, to the mass popularity of Zen Buddhism and the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism in the 1960's and 70's.

Fields was also the author of several other books, including Chop Wood, Carry Water and The Code of the Warrior. (Adapted from Source Dec 6, 20230

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