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The BCA counts over 60 affiliated churches and some 12,000 members within its ranks today. [3] [4] During World War II, Japanese Buddhist communities faced suspicion and discrimination as many Buddhist leaders were targeted by the government, as all mainland Japanese-Americans were incarcerated for the duration of the war. Despite the ...
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]
Ewam Buddhist Institute – located in Arlee, Montana; Naropa University is located in Boulder, Colorado (Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission) Institute of Buddhist Studies – located in Berkeley, California; Maitripa College – located in Portland, Oregon; Soka University of America – located in Aliso Viejo, California
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 ...
The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) was formed at a conference on January 26, 1975, on the island of Guam. Daisaku Ikeda was it's first president.. In the first year of his presidency, Ikeda visited the United States, Canada, and Brazil, and the Soka Gakkai's first American headquarters officially opened in Los Angeles in 1963.
Antioch's dark past, specifically its horrific mistreatment of early Chinese immigrants, motivated about 200 Buddhists to undertake a recent pilgrimage to the city of about 115,000, tucked deep in ...
He first visited the United States in 1978 under the sponsorship of the Buddhist Association of the United States, an organization of Chinese American Buddhists. In 1980, he founded the Chán Mediation Society in Queens, New York. In 1985, he founded the Chung-hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies in Taiwan, which sponsors Chinese Zen activities in ...
Nishimura, A. J. (2008) The Buddhist Mission of North America 1898–1942: Religion and its Social Functions in an Ethnic Community. In Numrich, P. D. (ed.) North American Buddhists in Social Context. BRILL. Prebish, C.S. (1999) Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America University of California Press.