This book is a distillation of Buddhist thought and tradition stripped down to its basics for Americans.
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The two Zen groups included in the survey were the Berkeley Zen Center in California and the Rochester Zen Center in New York, and each center represents one of the most important Zen lineages in the United States.
American Buddhism
This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field.