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This is a list of Buddhist members of the United States Congress. As of 2025, only four Buddhists have ever been elected to Congress, the first being both Mazie Hirono and Hank Johnson in 2007. As of the 119th Congress two Buddhists currently serve in the House of Representatives and one Buddhist in the Senate.
Discussion about Buddhism in America has sometimes focused on the issue of the visible ethnic divide separating ethnic Buddhist congregations from import Buddhist groups. [139] Although multiple Zen and Tibetan Buddhist temples were founded by Asians, they now attract fewer Asian-Americans.
After the 16th century in Tibet, Buddhist leaders were inseparable from government administrators. The concept of samayas, vows to the guru, became a tool for suppressing people's rights and manipulating political authority. [21] Shamar Rinpoche of the Karma Kagyu Lineage saw religion and politics as working against each other in Tibet. Lamas ...
Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc is doused with gasoline during a protest demonstration in Saigon, on June 11, 1963. ... Aaron Bushnell’s action is part of a long and controversial history of self ...
Benedict Cumberbatch (born in 1976) is an American-British Buddhist actor. He is famous for Dr. Strange (2021), The Imitation Game (2014) and Spider-man: No Way Home (2021).. [6] Brad Pitt (1963– ) American actor and film producer. [7] [8] Celeste Lecesne, American actor, author, screenwriter, LGBT rights activist, founder of The Trevor ...
The Know Nothings were a short-lived American political party in the mid-1850s. Know Nothingism was an anti-slavery party that recruited its strength from the collapse of the equally short-lived Free Soil Party and, in turn, provided the voters who formed the Republican Party and elected Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery.
Marc Benioff’s advice to fellow CEOs: Embrace this Buddhist concept—or ‘you’re going to have a problem’ Jane Thier Updated December 20, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-275-98713-8. Gold, Lorna (2004). The Sharing Economy: Solidarity Networks Transforming Globalization. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-3345-7. Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2002). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of ...