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Old wisdom in the New World : Americanization in two immigrant Theravada Buddhist temples /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Numrich, Paul David, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1996]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Theravāda Buddhism > United States > History > 20th century.
Wat Dhammaram (Chicago, Ill.) > History.
Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Theravada Buddhism
  • Theravada Buddhism in America
  • A study in Americanization
  • Chicago : Wat Dhammaram
  • Los Angeles : Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara
  • Temple life and focus
  • Chronologies of the schisms
  • Underlying tensions
  • The monastic staffs
  • Vinaya in america : dilemmas and adaptations
  • Ecumenism
  • The parallelism thesis
  • Evidence of parallelism
  • Implications of parallelism
  • Temple rituals and religious activities
  • Festivals
  • The second generation
  • Spiritual biographies
  • Personalities, perspectives, practices
  • Lay Ordination
  • Familiar themes
  • The (re)emergence of a new theme.