Dixie Dharma Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South 1st Edition by Jeff Wilson 0807835455 9780807835456

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ISBN 10: 0807835455

ISBN 13: 9780807835456

Author: Jeff Wilson

Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. In Dixie Dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding American Buddhism. Through the lens of a multidenominational Buddhist temple in Richmond, Virginia, Wilson explores how Buddhists are adapting to life in the conservative evangelical Christian culture of the South, and how traditional Southerners are adjusting to these newer members on the religious landscape. Introducing a host of overlooked characters, including Buddhist circuit riders, modernist Pure Land priests, and pluralistic Buddhists, Wilson shows how regional specificity manifests itself through such practices as meditation vigils to heal the wounds of the slave trade. He argues that southern Buddhists at once use bodily practices, iconography, and meditation tools to enact distinct sectarian identities even as they enjoy a creative hybridity.

Dixie Dharma Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One Bringing a Regional Perspective to American Buddhism

Chapter Two The Gift of Light

Chapter Three The Buddhist Confederacy

Chapter Four There’s No Such Thing as “Not My Buddhism”

Chapter Five Buddhism with a Southern Accent

Chapter Six The Reality of Our Collective Karma

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