<p style="MARGIN: 0px">Awakening<i>engages beginning students by discussing personal experience, employing a winning writing style, and approaching the subject from an historical perspective.</i></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><i>Awakening</i>is an excellent introduction to comparative Eastern philosophic and religious thought.<i>Awakening</i>provides an engaging historical overview of the major philosophical and spiritual traditions of India, China, and Japan. Patrick Bresnan ties the past to the present and shows the relationships that exist between Eastern and Western traditions.</p>