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Converts to this religion such as Anne Waldman founded the School of Disembodied Poetics. One poem states that a figure in this religion who represents the “Great Sun” will show up in America in his “true form of Smokey the Bear.” (10[1])This religion inspired the title of a poem that opens, “I’m an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas.” This religion’s (-5[1])converts include the author of the collection Turtle Island, who was the basis for the character Japhy Ryder. A name for texts in this religion inspired the titles of poems about a “Wichita vortex” and a “sunflower” (10[1])written by Allen (10[1])Ginsberg. For 10 points, many Beat writers (10[1])converted to what religion, (-5[1])which (10[1])inspires (10[1])the protagonists of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums to try to reach enlightenment? ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Buddhism [accept Zen Buddhism or Tibetan Buddhism] (The second clue is about “Smokey the Bear Sutra” by Gary Snyder.)
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