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	Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddhism is also known in Sanskrit or Pali, the main ancient languages of Buddhists, as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of "the Awakened One".
		Buddhism was established in the northern regions of India and Central Asia, and kingdoms with Buddhist rulers such as Menander I and Kaniska.
		Buddhism and Dzogchen: the Doctrine of the Buddha and the Supreme Vehicle of Tibetan Buddhism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhism (8933 words)

	Buddhism in the West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The conversion to Buddhism of the Indo-Greek king Menander (155-130 BCE) is described in Indian sources (the Milinda Panha), and echoed in Western ones (Plutarch).
		Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelled Græco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between the culture of Classical Greece and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 800 years in Central Asia in the area corresponding to modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE.
		Western spiritual seekers were attracted to what they saw as the exotic and mystical tone of the Asian traditions, and created esoteric societies such as the Theosophical Society of H.P. Blavatsky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Buddhism (1640 words)

	Buddhism Meets Western Science
		Western science now acknowledges that the mind is not just a program in the brain, but that its processes are distributed throughout the body.
		Western science now also finds conscious reason to be the tip of the iceberg of complex processes that are largely emotional and below the level of consciousness.
		Buddhism, based as it is upon experience and a psychological understanding of body and mind, is one of the oldest systems of thought yet most in tune with contemporary neuroscience and with other strands of contemporary discourse.
	www.parkridgecenter.org /Page483.html (1325 words)

	fwbo :: What is Buddhism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
	www.fwbo.org /buddhism.html (213 words)

	Green Buddhism
		Buddhism does offer an ethic that might be capable of transforming our current deluded environmental practice, but the developmental dimension of the tradition is crucial to that ethic, because the Buddhist virtue of compassion is something one can cultivate only through progressing up the spiral path of the hierarchy of compassion.
		Buddhism is saying, quite literally, that we cannot expect to act in an environmentally more ethical manner until we cultivate a much broader ability to act with compassion and wisdom.
		Buddhism is saying that we can expect to act in accord with the basic interrelatedness of all existence only once we have cultivated a significantly different state of awareness.
	www.westernbuddhistreview.com /vol1/green_buddhism.html (8241 words)

	Call For a New Buddhism
		What we call Buddhism today is an amalgamation of the true teachings of Siddhartha, combined with invented myths and large amounts of culture derived from the country in which the Buddhism is practiced.
		Buddhism started in India, but the countries to which it spread modified Buddhist teachings to fit their own temperament and culture.
		Westerners must beware that the East is no more innocent than the West, and many Asian gurus are just as impure in their motivation as our own homegrown variety of spiritual opportunist.
	home.att.net /~meditation/Buddhism.html (3603 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism
		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.
		It is a commonplace to claim that the fascination exerted by Tibet on the Western imagination, especially on the broad public in the US, provides an exemplary case of the "colonization of the imaginary." It reduces the actual Tibet to a screen for the projection of Western ideological fantasies.
		The second antidote is therefore the opposite one: to denounce the split nature of the Western image of Tibet as a "reflexive determination" of the split attitude of the West itself, combining violent penetration and respectful sacralization.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/2/western.php (2151 words)

	Stephen Batchelor: The Agnostic Buddhist
		In Mahayana Buddhism particularly the Buddha is not just someone who had a wonderful mystical experience, whose mind is freed, but also this being who spontaneously and compassionately manifests and is embodied in the world through the nirmanakaya ("transformation body").
		Buddhism would then become less and less the preserve of an institution, and more and more an experience that is owned by ordinary people in ordinary communities.
		Buddhism is not some ethereal thing that is magically transferred from Asia and then one day appears in the West.
	www.westernchanfellowship.org /agnostic-buddhist.html (3591 words)

	Western Buddhism by Kulananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		A Westerner himself, Kulananda presents some of the key ideas and methods by which he and his contemporaries now live.
	www.bostonfwbo.org /bookstore/western_buddhism.html (219 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Western Buddhism
		Since Buddhism is often shaped by the culture of the Nation it exists in American Buddhism should be interesting when it emerges.
		I think it is a mistake to separate meditation from the rest of Buddhism, though I agree that it is a practice which is far too common in the west.
		The fundamental teachings of the Buddha, the aggregates, gateways, and elements, the faculties and cause and conditiom, dependent origination, karma and its result, affliction and their removal, the path, the concentrations, and the higher knowledges, etc., are the same and need to be understood.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=3478 (2107 words)

	Daily Mirror Online : Opinion
		Buddhism has taken root in the West as ordained monks, nuns, and lay devotees from the West practise and teach the Dhamma to both Western and Eastern audiences.
		Possibly the greatest compliment that the West paid to Buddhism was when the United Nations recognized the Buddha for his pioneering contribution to the peace and welfare of mankind through the first official celebration of Vesak (the day marking the birth, enlightenment and passing away of the Lord Buddha).
		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.
	www.dailymirror.lk /2003/08/11/opinion/3.html (2919 words)

	Western Buddhist Teachers
		The significant thing, given these divergent scenarios, is that Westerners now occupy more or less every position of authority and importance in all three traditions, and have created a few of their own as well.
		These Western Zen lineages are very varied: they take in many nationalities(7) and include women (far more, in proportion to the total number of practitioners, than in Japan), gays, and even Christian priests and nuns (for which, see below).
		Westerners are simultaneously at the heart of the various Buddhist traditions and also extending them.
	www.globalbuddhism.org /2/rawli011.html (4527 words)

	AllFaith.com: Religious Studies: Buddhism in the West
		In Buddhism, many of these people are finding an ancient tradition that is capable of satisfying their spiritual necessities, while at the same time, is fully applicable to current scientific and philosophical understandings.
		While one may disagree with her presentation and interpretation of Buddhism (for instance her understanding of the doctrine of annihilation - IU, 1.290), as well as the details of her vision of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, Madame Blavatsky did much to spread knowledge of the Buddha dharma and her contributions must be acknowledged.
		The impact of D.T. Suzuki on Buddhism in the West is often likened to the significance of Aristotle and Plato (ZM 9; S 34).
	www.allfaith.com /Religions/Buddhism/Budd_west1.html (3735 words)

	Research - Thesis Bibliography - Journal of Global Buddhism
		By way of contrast, this work focuses on Westerners who seek to appropriate knowledge from an "Eastern" tradition in order to create an alternative society within their own region, highlighting the ways that the "West" is no more of a unitary whole than the Other.
		Members of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) draw on various cultural expressions to transform their property into what they call a "spiritual home".
		Their adoption of alien knowledge can be read as a critique of their wider socio-cultural situation, especially what they see as Western society's characteristic alienation from the Truth, and its consequent spiritual lacunae.
	www.globalbuddhism.org /thesis/mcara.htm (457 words)

	Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain
		The self proclaimed "Western Buddhist Movement" is chock full of postmodern leftist ideology - a desperate rewriting of a tragically failed philosophical and socio-political movement which began in the French Parliament of 1789 and was carried through to the egalitarian and collectivist revolutions of modern times.
		Western Buddhists would like to do away with the debate over the validity of this versus that view or belief, which has been one of the corner stones of both the Western and the Eastern search for truth.
		Das would like a Buddhism that is less "doctrinaire." The word "doctrinaire" means "stubbornly trying to apply a theory without considering the circumstances; impractical and stubbornly theoretical." It is egalitarianism and beliefs in "collective wisdom," that, in light of their disastrous historical failure, are doctrinaire - not Buddhism.
	www.damtsig.org /articles/traktung.html (4394 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Buddhism
		Ch'an Buddhism was first brought to Japan in the 7th century but took until the 12th century to catch widespread attention.
		Tibetan Buddhism Buddhism was first brought to Tibet in the 7th century through the king's marriage to Buddhist princesses from Nepal and China.
		Buddhism was brought to Korea from China in the fourth century.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/buddhism.html (6252 words)

	BUDDHISM IN THE WEST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Buddhism many of these people are finding an ancient tradition which is capable of satisfying their spiritual necessities, while at the same time, is fully applicable to current scientific and philosophical understandings.
		While one may disagree with her presentation and interpretation of Buddhism (for instance her understanding of the doctrine of annihilation - IU, 1.290), as well as the details of her vision of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, Madame Blavatsky did much to spread knowledge of the Buddhadharma and her contributions must be acknowledged.
		Through this conference the western world was introduced to some of the most influential religious thinkers of the day.
	www.thechurchforall.org /BuddhismintheWest.htm (3893 words)

	Amazon.ca: One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism: Books: Joseph Goldstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		Granted, the different traditions are interacting with each other here and yes, it is generally a positive thing for Western Buddhists to supplement their main studies and practices with forays into other traditions and other ways of contemplating the teachings.
		Too much is left out for the reader to see how the traditions of Buddhism, if only on the surface, differ from each other and how the transmission of Buddhism to the United States promises the opportunity of integrating teachings from the different schools.
	www.amazon.ca /One-Dharma-Emerging-Western-Buddhism/dp/0062517007 (2501 words)

	fwbo :: The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
		The essence of Buddhism is timeless and universal.
		Now that Buddhism is spreading around the globe, the task is to create new Buddhist traditions relevant to the 21st century.
		If you are interested in retreats on Buddhism and Buddhist meditation — for people of all levels of experience — please visit our UK FWBO Retreat Centre portal.
	www.fwbo.org (277 words)

	Buddhism in America: Can the Buddhist religion survive Western culture? - WIE.org
		Find out how Buddhism in the West has negotiated the sometimes high—and sometimes low—ground between its roots as a traditional Eastern religion and its current status as popular new Western religion.
		The first Western woman to be recognized as a reincarnated Tibetan tulku discusses gender, enlightenment, and being a female teacher in a male-dominated tradition.
		One of the founding fathers of American Buddhism speaks about why he never became a monk, and insists that transcendence of the world is strictly an inner matter.
	www.wie.org /buddhism (839 words)

	One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
		What makes this time unique in the development of Buddhism is not only that East is meeting West, but also that isolated Asian traditions are now meeting for the first time in centuries, and they are doing so here in the West.
		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.
		In Buddhism there are many names for ultimate freedom: Buddha-Nature, the Unconditioned, Dharmakaya, the Unborn, the Pure Heart, Mind Essence, Nature of Mind, Ultimate Bodhicitta, Nirvana.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/excerpts/exc_20020703.shtml (1136 words)

	Buddhism and Western Philosophy
		For example, he learns to be aware of (a) the key passages that are traditionally seen as problematic for an exegesis of Tsongkhapa, (b) areas of thought that point to a need for deeper philosophical enquiry, and (c) issues that are of central importance in understanding the points of divergence between Tsongkhapa and his predecessors.
		Given that a great deal of modern Western scholarship on Tibetan Madhyamaka has been based on the writings of later Geluk thinkers, there is often the danger of reading Tsongkhapa's philosophy as articulated in contemporary Western language almost exclusively through the lens of the later Geluk presentation of Madhyamaka.
		Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind presents, for the first time, a searching and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the Western phenomenologies--a challenge, that is, to grow beyond the settled alternative assumptions that the mind either is or is not mirror-like in its experience of phenomenal reality.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/buddhism/buddhismwesternphilosophyR.htm (4746 words)

	Amazon.com: One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism: Books: Joseph Goldstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Western Buddhism, Bodh Gaya, Bodhi Tree, Blessed One Kassapa, Mahasi Sayadaw, Northern India, Ajahn Maha Bua, Great Assembly, Hui Neng, Korean Zen, Mother Teresa, Natural Great Perfection, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Peace Corps, Siddhartha Gautama, Wheel of Dharma, Anagarika Munindra, Buddha Kassapa, New York, Pali Suttas, Psychological Buddhism, Sutta Nipata, Wei Wu Wei
		One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism by Joseph Goldstein
		Joseph Goldstein has the ability to explain the essence of Buddhism and it's core teachings in a very understandable and condensed format.
	www.amazon.com /One-Dharma-Emerging-Western-Buddhism/dp/0062517007 (2284 words)

	SkyDancer — Links on Western Buddhism
		Buddhism without Beliefs, a sermon using the title of Stephen Batchelor's book.
		Holding the Lotus to the Rock — reflections on the development of Zen in the West.
		Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, by Stephen Batchelor, is about using the methods of Buddhism without the mythology or metaphysics.
	www.loudzen.com /skydancer/links/westbudlinks.html (589 words)

	FWBO Vancouver: Home - Western Buddhism and Sangharakshita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The FWBO draws from venerable Buddhist traditions to develop a viable strain of Buddhism for today.
		Keep in mind that you cannot practice Buddhism – or meditation – simply by reading about it.
		returned to England, he saw the need for a Western Buddhism and started working on the chain of cause-effect-cause...that ends up, for now, with your reading this.
	www.vancouverbuddhistcentre.com /home.htm (306 words)

	Buddhism - Practice - Frames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, you can navigate the site using the links below:
		Early Buddhism and the Development of Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism
		The Spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road
	www.acay.com.au /~silkroad/buddha/h_west_frames.htm (47 words)

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