Buddhism in America

  • Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts
    By Scott A. Mitchell

    Like Kornfield, many other Americans sought opportunities to travel to Asia, including Joseph Goldstein (b. 1944), Sharon Salzberg (b. 1952), and Ruth Denison (1922–2015), each of whom began their Buddhist training in Asia.

  • Buddhism in America
    By Richard Hughes Seager

    The 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 ...

  • Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts
    By Scott A. Mitchell

    Global Religion, Local Contexts Scott A. Mitchell. 1898–1942: Religion and its Social Function in an Ethnic Community.” In North American Buddhists in Social Context, ed. Paul David Numrich, 87–106. Boston: Brill. Nobutaka, Inoue. 2012.

  • Buddhism in America
    By Richard Hughes Seager

    The History and Theology of Soka Gakkai: A Japanese New Religion. ... Gethsemane Encounter: A Dialogue on the Spiritual Life by Buddhist and Christian Monastics. ... Numrich, Paul D. North American Buddhists in Social Context.

  • Buddhism in America
    By Emma McCloy Layman

    Buddhism in America

  • Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts
    By Scott A. Mitchell

    Provides an overview of the history and development, major traditions and current trends in the study and practice for American Buddhism, complete with pedagogical features for textbook use.

  • Buddhism in America: The Social Organization of an Ethnic Religious Institution
    By Tetsuden Kashima

    Buddhism in America: The Social Organization of an Ethnic Religious Institution

  • Buddhism in America
    By Richard Hughes Seager

    ... Sho-Hondo, constructed largely by the efforts and at the expense of Soka Gakkai, was completed at Taisekiji. Ikeda and others saw it as a sign of a pivotal role to be played by Soka Gakkai in kosen-rufu, one related to its global ...