Buddhist Modernism from Asia to America
Buddhist Modernism from Asia to America
This chapter provides historical and theoretical contexts on the emergence of Buddhist modernism in Asia and its transmission to North America. It then offers a series of case studies that show both an interrogation of modernist features and the appearance of characteristics more associated with the postmodern, postcolonial, and postsecular within these communities. A common feature of American meditation-based Buddhism has been to extend and align with the Asian Buddhist modernist trope of distinguishing between essential and cultural Buddhism onto convert and Asian American immigrant communities. This has produced a hierarchical racialized split, which has received scant and insufficient attention in scholarship on American Buddhism.
Keywords: Buddhist modernism, Buddhism, North American Buddhists, meditation, convert lineages
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