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The faces of Buddhism in America
Title:
The faces of Buddhism in America
Author:
Prebish, Charles S.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Chinese Buddhism in America: identity and practice / Shin Buddhism in America: a social perspective / Japanese Zen in America: Americanizing the face in the mirror / Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai in America: the pioneer spirit / Tibetan Buddhism in America: the development of American Vajrayana / Korean Buddhism in America: a new style of Zen / Vietnamese Buddhism in North America: tradition and acculturation / Theravada Buddhism in America: prospects for the Sangha / Insight meditation in the United States: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness / Who is a Buddhist? Charting the landscape of Buddhist America / Divided dharma: white Buddhists, ethnic Buddhists, and racism / Americanizing the Buddha: Paul Carus and the transformation of Asian thought / Buddhist and Western psychotherapies: an Asian American perspective / Helping the iron bird fly: Western Buddhist women and issues of authority in the late 1990s / Coming out in the Sangha: queer community in American Buddhism / Responding to the cries of the world: socially engaged Buddhism in North America
ISBN:
9780520204607

9780520213012
Format :
Book