American Dharma
- ISBN-10
- 0300215800
- ISBN-13
- 9780300215809
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 362
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Ann Gleig
Description
This illuminating account of contemporary American Buddhism shows the remarkable ways the tradition has changed over the past generation The past couple of decades have witnessed Buddhist communities both continuing the modernization of Buddhism and questioning some of its limitations. In this fascinating portrait of a rapidly changing religious landscape, Ann Gleig illuminates the aspirations and struggles of younger North American Buddhists during a period she identifies as a distinct stage in the assimilation of Buddhism to the West. She observes both the emergence of new innovative forms of deinstitutionalized Buddhism that blur the boundaries between the religious and secular, and a revalorization of traditional elements of Buddhism, such as ethics and community, that were discarded in the modernization process. Based on extensive ethnographic and textual research, the book ranges from mindfulness debates in the Vipassana network to the sex scandals in American Zen, while exploring issues around racial diversity and social justice, the impact of new technologies, and generational differences between baby boomer, Gen X, and millennial teachers.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South
By Jeff WilsonIn Dixie Dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding American Buddhism.
-
Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora
By Pankaj JainDharma in America aims to explore the role of Hindu and Jain Americans in diverse fields such as: education and civic engagements medicine and healthcare music.
-
Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
By Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv ChopraTraces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to America, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School. 100,000 first printing.
-
Buddhism in America
By Richard Hughes SeagerThe issue was anticipated by a third figure during this early period, a native-born American named Dwight Goddard, a Protestant missionary first drawn to the dharma in the 1920s, when he lived and practiced for a time in a Kyoto ...
-
The Dharma Bums
By Jack KerouacDuring the 1950s the search for Buddhist truths takes two young Bohemians through a series of bizarre experiences in California
-
Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia
By Charles S. Prebish, Martin Baumann"Like seeds on the wind, Buddhist teachings continue to reach new lands. This outstanding book brings to light, in rich detail, the current flowering of Buddhism in the West.
-
The Making of Buddhist Modernism
By David L. McMahanIn this book, David McMahan charts the development of this "Buddhist modernism." McMahan examines and analyzes a wide range of popular and scholarly writings produced by Buddhists around the globe.
-
Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations
By Chelsea CainLooks back at the author's past, when she lived on an Iowa communal farm and was called Snowbird, detailing her life as a hippie and her mother's more recent bout with skin cancer
-
Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism
By Richard Hughes SeagerThis book tells of his journey toward understanding in a compelling narrative woven out of his observations, reflections, and interviews, including several rare one-on-one meetings with Soka Gakkai president Daisaku Ikeda.
-
Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia
By Charles S. Prebish, Martin BaumannMichelle Spuler, “The Adaptation of Buddhism to the West: Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist Groups in Australia” (Ph.D. diss., University of Queensland, Australia, 1999), 164–72, published as Facets of the Diamond: Developments in Australian ...