Teaching Buddhism in the West:(Mostly) North American Universities and Colleges by Mavis Fenn

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['Teaching Buddhism in the West:(Mostly) North American Universities and Colleges'] by Mavis Fenn

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“The meeting between Buddhism and the West” in the French media-academic sphere: A theosophical soteriology by Marion Dapsance

“…This article deals with the persistence of theosophist worldviews in contemporary discourses on Buddhism in the West. It shows that some French intellectuals, working across the academic and the media spheres, though pretending to analyse the establishment of Buddhism in the West actually develop a soteriological discourse focused on a reified entity called “the West”. …”
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['Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web, edited by Victor Sogen Hori, Richard P. Hayes, and J. Mark Shields'] by Roger Corless

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<i>Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web</i>, edited by Victor Sogen Hori, Richard P. Hayes, and J. Mark Shields by Roger Corless

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Pure Land or Pure Mind?: Locus of Awakening and American Popular Religious Culture by Richard K. Payne

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Ananda Metteyya/Allan Bennett (1872–1923) by Elizabeth Harris

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Budizm’in Batı’dan Doğuşu: Modern ve Postmodern Budizm by Hesna Serra Aksel

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<i>Living Vinaya</i> in the United States: Emerging Female Monastic Sanghas in the West by Ching-ning Wang

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Women contribution to the development of Buddhism in Latvia by Laudere Marika

“…The significant role in the historical transmission of Buddhism to the West and in shaping a distinctively Western form of Buddhism has been played by Western women. …”
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Red Tārā: lineages of literature and practice by Stevens, R

“…</p> <p>The thesis relies on translation of primary sources from the Tibetan language, participant observation, and New Religious Studies methodology, and covers a wide range of areas including subjugation rituals, iconography, body-<em>maṇḍala</em> rituals, the adoption of Buddhism in the West, and New Religious Movements. It adds to current knowledge in a variety of fields including ritual, goddess studies, the Tibetan pantheon and its iconography, and Buddhism in the West.…”

Wedding the Personal and Impersonal in West Coast Vipassana: A Dialogical Encounter between Buddhism and Psychotherapy by Ann Gleig

“…Numerous studies have noted that depth psychology has been one of the most prevalent frameworks for the interpretation of Buddhism in the West. Similarly, many commentators have bemoaned the assimilation of Buddhist thought and practice into western psychological discourse. …”
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“The Only Way Out Is In”: Transcending Modernity and Embracing Interconnectedness in Gary Snyder and Kenneth White by Monika Kocot

“…This change might become part of a paradigm shift associated with a new view of ecology and the natural world, as proposed by Thich Nhat Hanh, the father of engaged Buddhism in the West. This paper aims to show how Gary Snyder and Kenneth White, two like-minded world-renowned poets and environmental activists, contribute to a new cultural paradigm: transmodernity. …”
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D. T. Suzuki: post-orientalistisk zen-tænker by Jørn Borup

“…His many publications on Zen until a few decades ago were the only channel to knowledge about this universe, and 'Suzuki Zen' in itself has been a catalyst for lived Zen Buddhism in the West. This article describes Suzuki's life and places his understanding of Zen, Buddhism and religion in a historical and network-theoretical framework. …”
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Buddhist values as a potential economic determinant in the development of Tuvan society by Inna S. Tarbastaeva

“…After the spread of Buddhism in the West in the middle of the 20th century, ancient knowledge and practices became available to the urbanized population. …”
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