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Dixie Dharma - Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South (Paperback, New edition)
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Dixie Dharma - Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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