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In 2015 a Pew Foundation survey found 67% of American Buddhists were raised in a religion other than Buddhism. [130] 61% said their spouse has a religion other than Buddhism. [130] It also showed that one-third of Buddhists in America are of Asian descent, while the remaining three-fourths are converts to Buddhism. [131]
In 1949, the BCA founded the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley as the Buddhist Studies Center, becoming the first seminary for Buddhist ministry in America, and provides graduate level education in the Buddhist tradition through its affiliation with the Graduate Theological Union today. [14]
Duncan Ryūken Williams (born September 19, 1969) is a scholar, writer, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest who is currently professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture.
He has written a textbook on American Buddhism and co-edited with Natalie Quli two volumes on Buddhism in the United States and Buddhist studies methodology. Mitchell has argued for the importance of media analyses in the understanding of Buddhism’s dissemination to the West, [ 7 ] and has published numerous essays on the topic. [ 8 ]
Shunryu Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆, often called Suzuki Roshi; May 18, 1904 – December 4, 1971) was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Zen Buddhist monastery outside Asia (Tassajara Zen Mountain Center). [1]
Amid anti-Asian racism during the pandemic, Asian American Buddhists are challenging white-dominant narratives of Buddhism and re-centering Asian American identity in what it means to be Buddhist ...
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Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism.The term Buddhology was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Buddha, and doctrines of a Buddha", but the terms Buddhology and Buddhist studies are generally synonymous in the contemporary context.