id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1791 Gary Snyder - Wikipedia .html text/html 6860 765 72 Snyder had spent considerable time in Japan studying Zen Buddhism, and in 1961 published an essay, "Buddhist Anarchism", where he described the connection he saw between these two traditions, originating in different parts of the world: "The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void." He advocated "using such means as civil disobedience, outspoken criticism, protest, pacifism, voluntary poverty and even gentle violence" and defended "the right of individuals to smoke ganja, eat peyote, be polygymous, polyandrous or homosexual" which he saw as being banned by "the Judaeo-Capitalist-Christian-Marxist West".[35] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1791.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1791.txt