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| | fwbo :: The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order |
 | | The essence of Buddhism is timeless and universal. | | | Now that Buddhism has come to the West, the task is to create new Buddhist traditions relevant to the 21st century. | | | The FWBO is an international network dedicated to communicating Buddhist truths in ways appropriate to the modern world. |
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http://www.fwbo.org
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| | fwbo :: What is Buddhism? |
| | Buddhism is a path of practice and spiritual development leading to Insight into the true nature of life. | | | Because Buddhism does not include the idea of worshipping a creator God, some people do not see it as a religion in the normal, Western sense. | | | They follow many different forms of Buddhism, but all traditions are characterised by non-violence, lack of dogma, tolerance of differences, and, usually, by the practice of meditation. |
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http://www.fwbo.org/buddhism.html
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| | Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| | For typical unenlightened Westerners coming to Tibetan Buddhism for the first time, they are faced with a pantheon of fearsome Buddhist deities, archaic mantras, and a choice of different paths and schools. | | | Buddhism forms the core of Tibetan society and the main Buddhist schools of Gelukpa, Karma Kagyu, Nyingma and Sakya have done well in re-establishing themselves in the Indian subcontinent and in centers around the world. | | | All this has to happen if Tibetan Buddhism is to survive as a viable, dynamic and attractive religion in the West. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EL25Ad05.html
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| | The Unique Potential of Shin Buddhism in Western Society |
| | In the first place, Shin Buddhism is a layperson's religion. | | | Shin Buddhism is, therefore, a source for healing in society. | | | The philosophical background of Shin Buddhism lies in the non-dualistic Mahayana Buddhist tradition. |
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http://www.shindharmanet.com/writings/unique.htm
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| | Buddhism Meets Western Science |
| | Outside this, Buddhism is little concerned about free will. | | | For Buddhism is not concerned with ontology, or indeed with knowledge for its own sake. | | | Indeed, Buddhism's centuries of exploration of subjective mind states may be a resource for Western science. |
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http://www.parkridgecenter.org/Page483.html
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| | About the Great Western Vehicle |
| | Western Buddhism needs a canon of Buddhist literature, therefore we embrace the Pali canon in English translation as the foundation of the Western canon of Buddhist literature. | | | We are not interested in Buddhism as a religion, but as a philosophy and practice strategy (dharma) that any one can follow to enlightenment, regardless of their cultural or religious background. | | | The Great Western Vehicle is a 4th Wheel Buddhist tradition that seeks to teach Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practices within the context of any culture or religious tradition. |
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http://www.geocities.com/jhanananda/Greatwesternvehicle.html
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| | Cabinet Magazine Online - From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism |
| | The Tibetan Buddhism itself is simultaneously hailed as the most spiritual of all religions, the last shelter of ancient Wisdom, | | | The "Western Buddhist" meditative stance is arguably the most efficient way for us to fully participate in capitalist dynamics while retaining the appearance of mental sanity. | | | One is almost tempted to resuscitate the old infamous Marxist cliché of religion as the "opium of the people," as the imaginary supplement to terrestrial misery. |
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http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/western.php
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| | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| | "Western Buddhism" now seems as apt as "Buddhism in the West": over a hundred years have passed since a Zen master addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago; major American Zen Centers are approaching their thirtieth anniversaries; an estimated million Americans identify themselves as Buddhists; Buddhist publications are flourishing; and so on. | | | Although the forms of socially engaged Buddhism in the West vary, and the Buddhist schools that contribute to the movement are diverse, one aspiration is almost universally shared by those involved -- the ideal of nonviolence or peace. | | | The geographical contours of Western Buddhism are necessarily unfixed; in this essay the term refers primarily to Buddhism in North America and Europe. |
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http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/2/kraft.html
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| | Essay Review of "The New Buddhism" |
| | Buddhism began with Siddhartha Gautama who lived in northern India in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E. Tradition says he became “the enlightened one” (the Buddha) after a period of deep meditation under a bodhi tree. | | | Coleman distinguishes between ethnic Buddhism in the West, part of the cultural tradition brought by Asian immigrants, and the “new Buddhism” which attracts Western adherents, most of whom are “wealthy, liberal, highly educated Anglos.” The author’s survey of 359 people at seven Buddhist centers, conducted from 1992 to 1996, while not scientific, is nevertheless instructive. | | | Western Buddhist centers were rocked by a number of sex-and-power scandals in the 1980s. |
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http://www.butte.cc.ca.us/~barnettd/salem2002.html
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| | Martin Southwold argues, in the instance of Sinhalese Buddhism, that ethical behavior is the focus and vehicle of the "ritual impulse" for Buddhist laypeople in Sri Lanka. | | | Western Buddhist communities are only now beginning to face up to this kind of decision-making, for which a virtues-orientation is sometimes inadequate. | | | In Buddhism, the idea of the atomistic, self-empowering monad-godling of Western individualism is well known, but understood as a delusion born of ignorant desires and fears, resulting in a wish-fantasy for domination. |
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http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/jbe/vol1/whitehil.txt
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| | Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain |
| | The idea of "Buddhism without belief" in a world where there is no Buddhism, only "Buddhists," is crucial to perpetrating the sham of the Western Buddhist Movement. | | | The Western Buddhist Movement is a "Buddhism without beliefs" in a world where there "really is no Buddhism." It is an empty husk. | | | Das says he sees "a Buddhism without beliefs, a Dharma that is less doctrinaire, dogmatic and belief based." Of course, any but the most simplistic thinker or contorted postmodernist would instantly see that the very notion of the superiority of "Buddhism without beliefs" is itself a belief. |
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http://www.damtsig.org/articles/traktung.html
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| | Appeal of Buddhism in the West |
| | In my opinion, the reason for the increased Western interest in Buddhism is the scientific approach of the Buddha, His infinite compassion to all living beings, and His teaching by example. | | | As such the commitment of Western Buddhists is strong for they are Buddhists by conviction and they have experiential wisdom. | | | Western Buddhists should examine and adopt from the East that which would result in long-term stability and social benefit to ensure that the "Buddhism boom" in the United States, which occurred in the 1890's and faded in the 1920', does not replicate. |
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http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/ebdha276.htm
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| | Amazon.com: The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture: Books |
| | One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism by Joseph Goldstein | | | Batchelor, a convert from Tibetan to Zen Buddhism (assuming he hasn't converted again since), is one of the more interesting Western authors on Buddhism. | | | Urging Western modifications of Buddhist practice, Batchelor downplays the guru factor that produced an unbroken lineage from Gautama Buddha. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0938077686?v=glance
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| | Bibliography on Buddhism in Europe |
| | Cush, Denise, "Buddhism in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in the West", unpubl. | | | Gaellmo, Gunnar, "Buddhism in Ceylon and Sweden", in: Studia Orientalia 50, 1980, pp. | | | Nyanasatta Thera, "Buddhism in the West", serialised in Buddha Rasmi 15-16, Bambalapitiya 1956, offprinted by the Buddhist Brotherhood, Royal College, Colombo 1957, repr. |
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http://www.globalbuddhism.org/bib-bud.html
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| | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| | The fundamental aim of Buddhism is to attain emancipation from all bondage arising from the duality of life and death. | | | Therefore, while there are of course a number of criticisms of Buddhism that have emerged in its confrontation with other forms of understanding, here I will focus upon one particular set of criticisms that has been historically directed at Buddhism from a number of fronts that I believe is of particular importance for Western Buddhism. | | | In this way a truly Western Buddhism might be developed; that is a Buddhism that takes cognizance of and addresses those areas of concern that are of particular importance to those who are attempting to work for creative transformation in the West. |
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http://www.jbe.gold.ac.uk/4/palmer1.html
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| | Buddhist Bioethics |
| | In a 1993 monograph on the subject of death in Buddhism, Becker asserts that the Buddhist tradition, especially in Japan, is very tolerant of suicide and euthanasia. | | | Buddhism appears to have played an important role in the evolution of traditional Indian medicine (Zysk, 1991), and there are many parallels between Buddhist medicine, as recorded in the Pali canon, and Aayurveda (Mitra, 1985). | | | Redmond (1992) discusses the relationship of Buddhism to medicine from Theravaada and Mahaayaana perspectives and compares Buddhist and Daoist concepts of disease. |
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http://www.changesurfer.com/Bud/BudBioEth.html
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| | Western Buddhism by Kulananda |
| | Buddhism is now one of the fastest-growing religions in the West and it is evolving in new directions. | | | Although deeply rooted in the ancient Buddhist tradition, the emerging Western Buddhism is nonetheless willing to consider its great heritage with a critical eye, to question traditional doctrines and methods and to ask how we can live out these teaching in our modern lives. | | | He also radically reassesses the ways in which the encounter between Buddhism and Western culture affects our lives on a religious, cultural, social and economic level. |
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http://www.bostonfwbo.org/bookstore/western_buddhism.html
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| | FT May 2005: Books in Review |
| | Westerners who convert to Buddhism are frequently attracted to a form of Buddhism that is the creation of the modern world. | | | Western converts are often attracted to precisely those features of Buddhism that owe most to liberal Protestantism: tolerance, elevation of reason, compatibility with science, hostility to elitism and hierarchy in religion, and so on. | | | But the Buddhism that’s booming is what Boston University’s Stephen Prothero calls “Boomer Buddhism.” Promoted by Surya Das, Jack Kornfield, and famous Hollywood converts such as Richard Gere, the “new Buddhists” practice an egalitarian, feminist, tolerant, ecumenical Buddhism that doesn’t have to bother with religious tradition. |
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| | Western Reformed Buddhism? |
| | Second, many aspects of Buddhism attractive to Westerners are in fact Western in derivation, the result of Victorian-era reformist activities among Sri Lankans and later modifications of both Zen and Tibetan traditions. | | | It was in response to these trends that Western Reformed Buddhism began to emerge as the natural response of a modern culture to generate a responsible Western Buddhist movement that could maintain and further Buddhist wisdom and practice without exclusive reliance on one Asian tradition or another. | | | Early dispersal of Buddhism to develop in widely separated areas means Western practitioners have several very different Buddhist traditions from which to choose, each inseparable from a cultural context. |
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http://www.thinkaboutit.org/western.htm
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| | Westward Dharma |
| | The manifold processes involved in developing western Buddhism are of interest to Buddhist scholars and practitioners alike and this collection of 23 essays seeks to survey the field. | | | Both of its editors are longstanding scholars of western Buddhism. | | | The final part, 'Buddhism facing New Challenges', starts with an essay by Judith Simmer-Brown on women in Buddhism that is free from the failings in Wetzel's piece. |
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http://www.dharmalife.com/issue20/collective_endeavour.html
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| | One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism |
| | Excerpted from One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism. | | | It is neither a scholarly examination of comparative Buddhism nor an exhaustive study of particular traditions; rather, it is an inquiry born from my own meditation practice and from a compelling interest in understanding and realizing the essence of freedom. | | | Buddhist monk Ajahn Amaro explores Buddhism's strong appeal to many in the Western world, and describes his own spiritual journey from West to East. |
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http://www.gracecathedral.org/enrichment/excerpts/exc_20020703.shtml
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| | Westward Dharma |
| | This recent, dramatic growth in Western Buddhism is accompanied by an expansion of topics and issues of Buddhist concern. | | | Studying the Spread and Histories of Buddhism in the West: The Emergence of Western Buddhism as a New Subdiscipline within Buddhist Studies | | | He is coeditor of The Faces of Buddhism in America (California, 1998) and the electronic Journal of Buddhist Ethics. |
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http://ucpress.org/books/pages/9178.html
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| | Spirituality & Health: Western Buddhism |
| | Kulananda's discussions of the professional Western Buddhist teacher and the practice of engaged Buddhism are right on target. | | | This is a well-done primer about the continuing evolution of Western Buddhism. | | | Kulananda, a second generation Buddhist teacher ordained in 1977, salutes this religion's special qualities: "its psychological acuity, clarity of expression, symbolic imagery, transformative methodologies, and transcendental insight." The author believes the West is subtly being challenged by Buddhism. |
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http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/bookreview/item_7971.html
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| | village voice > news > Guess Who’s Coming to Dharma by Carol Cooper |
| | The public face of convert Buddhism in America is predominantly white and male and middle-class. | | | In the half-century since Buddhism re-entered American pop culture via the Beats (having first enjoyed a passing vogue during the 1890s), more and more black females—children of the civil rights movement, champions of black nationalism, feminist iconoclasts, and intellectuals—have been finding their way to Buddhist practice. | | | She feels a strong connection to both and would love to use Buddhism's profoundly anti-elitist, anti-authoritarian, and antisectarian essence to revitalize black political activism in this country. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0126/cooper.shtml
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| | The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition |
| | The New Buddhism sheds new light on this recent evolution of Buddhist practice in the West. | | | Moreover, the new Buddhism has made the path of meditation and spiritual awakening available to everyone, not just an elite cadre of monks. | | | Coleman draws on interviews with noted teachers and lay practitioners, as well as a survey that was completed by members of seven Buddhist centers, to depict the colorful variety of new Buddhists today, from dilettantes to devoted students and the dedicated teachers who guide their spiritual progress. |
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http://www.examined-life.net/books/bks_0195131622.htm
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| | WAiB - Female Teachers - Vajrayana |
| | Lama Inge Sandvoss is the teacher at Padma Ling, a centre of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. | | | Lama Tsering Everest is the teacher at Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling, a centre of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism located in São Paolo, Brazil. | | | In 1986 she became one of the first Western women to be authorized as a lama in the Vajrayana tradition. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~lhamo/2tibetan.htm
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| | Borders - Feature - One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism |
| | Excerpted from One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism. | | | Dzogchen, also known as the "Natural Great Perfection," is the highest teaching of the Nyingma school in Tibetan Buddhism. | | | Borders - Feature - One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism |
| | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism > Dharma | | | Separated by time and space, the several traditions of Buddhism and their many internal variations grew from the Buddha's original teachings into disparate systems of practice on the path to liberation. | | | More than a thousand years of different development of Zen and Tibetan buddhism have made it difficult to define the one dharma that unites them both. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062517007
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| | PREFACE |
| | Although Europeans gained knowledge of Buddhism as early as the thirteenth century, it was only in the twentieth century that it began to take hold in the Western world as a form of spiritual practice. | | | Stephen Batchelor is a Western Buddhist practitioner and author who has devoted his energies to the merging of classical Buddhist and modern Western values. | | | The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture. |
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http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/msthesispreface.htm
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| | Karmapa's Gift: Tibetan Buddhism for Western Students |
| | The main introductory practice given by H. Karmapa to his Western students is the Guru Yoga Meditation of the 16th Karmapa. | | | After he left Tibet, he gave several meditation practices to his Western students. | | | The Way Things Are: A Living Approach to Buddhism for Today's World |
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| | Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism |
| | A genuine Western Buddhism is now taking birth," writes Joseph Goldstein, one of America's most respected Buddhist teachers. | | | In One Dharma one of America's foremost Buddhist teachers presents the central teachings and practices of the emerging Western Buddhism in clear, personal language. | | | Description: The definitive book on Western Buddhism by one of our leaders of Eastern thought. |
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http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=53023797
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| | Western Buddhism |
| | Western Buddhists who do not fit entirely into any single lineage or tradition, members of a traditional sangha who are searching for a western perspective, unaffiliated Buddhists who still have not found a comminity, and non-Buddhists who are interested in genuine dialogue--all are welcome. | | | Mobile Droid, You might want to think a... |
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http://groups.msn.com/WesternBuddhism
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