GETTING IT WRONG: THE FEELING OF BUDDHISM IN AMERICA (original) (raw)

2016, Equality & Peace: Practical Concerns and Future Outlook of Buddhism

This paper outlines the globalization, localization, and standardization processes of Fo Guang Shan as they pertain to establishing Humanistic Buddhism in Southern California. The major audiences addressed by Fo Guang Shan, their cultural characteristics and needs, and the tensions these create are summarized. Suggestions to further localize Fo Guang Shan in Southern California (and America) are discussed, including localization of ways of life and localization of education, in relation to major trends in the wide variety of emerging American Buddhisms including democratization, pragmatism, de-traditionalization, and social activism. The purpose of this paper to highlight underlying currents that affect the localization of Fo Guang Shan in Southern California that may have previously gone unacknowledged, including a pervasive worry or feeling among American Buddhists that they are getting it ‘wrong.’

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