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The faces of Buddhism in America /
Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a "Buddhist"? This has been a much-debated question in recent years, particularly in regard to the religion's bifurcation into two camps: the so-ca...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Chinese Buddhism in America: identity and practice / Stuart Chandler
- Shin Buddhism in America: a social perspective / Alfred Bloom
- Japanese Zen in America: Americanizing the face in the mirror / G. Victor Sogen Hori
- Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai in America: the pioneer spirit / Jane Hurst
- Tibetan Buddhism in America: the development of American Vajrayana / Amy Lavine
- Korean Buddhism in America: a new style of Zen / Mu Soeng
- Vietnamese Buddhism in North America: tradition and acculturation / Cuong Tu Nguyen and A.W. Barber
- Theravada Buddhism in America: prospects for the Sangha / Paul David Numrich
- Insight meditation in the United States: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness / Gil Fronsdal
- Who is a Buddhist? Charting the landscape of Buddhist America / Jan Nattier
- Divided dharma: white Buddhists, ethnic Buddhists, and racism / Rick Fields
- Americanizing the Buddha: Paul Carus and the transformation of Asian thought / Martin J. Verhoeven
- Buddhist and Western psychotherapies: an Asian American perspective / Ryo Imamura
- Helping the iron bird fly: Western Buddhist women and issues of authority in the late 1990s / Rita M. Gross
- Coming out in the Sangha: queer community in American Buddhism / Roger Corless
- Responding to the cries of the world: socially engaged Buddhism in North America / Donald Rothberg
- Colors and contours of American Buddhism / Kenneth K. Tanaka.