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050 0 4 _aBQ732.S438.B833 1999
100 1 _aSeager, Richard Hughes,
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245 1 0 _aBuddhism in America /
_cRichard Hughes Seager.
_hPR
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c(c)1999.
300 _axviii, 314 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aColumbia contemporary American religion series
504 _a2
505 0 0 _aThe American Buddhist landscape --
_tVery basic Buddhism --
_tThree vehicles --
_tThe American setting --
_tJodo Shinshu : America's old-line Buddhists --
_tSoka Gakkai and its Nichiren humanism --
_tZen and its flagship institutions --
_tThe Tibetan milieu --
_tThe Theravada spectrum --
_tOther Pacific Rim migrations --
_tGender equity --
_tSocially engaged Buddhism --
_tIntra-Buddhist and interreligious dialogue --
_tMaking some sense of Americanization.
520 0 _aWith a history stretching back to ancient India, Buddhism has influenced American culture since the American Transcendentalist movement in the 1830s and '40s. Only in the past few decades, however, has this transplanted philosophy begun to blossom into a full-fledged American religion, made up of three broad groups: a burgeoning Asian immigrant population, numerous native-born converts, and old-line Asian American Buddhists. In Buddhism in America, religious historian Richard Seager offers a perceptive and engaging portrait of the communities, institutions, practices, and individuals that are integral to the contemporary Buddhist landscape. The book begins with a brief survey of Buddhist beliefs ;
530 _a2
650 0 _aBuddhism
_zUnited States.
655 4 _aNonfiction.
830 0 _aColumbia contemporary American religion series.
942 _cBK
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999 _c102916
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902 _a1
_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell