Introduction / Christopher S. Queen -- Issues of ethnicity in the Buddhist churches of America / Kenneth K. Tanaka -- Japanese American Zen temples : cultural identity and economics / Senryō Asai and Duncan Ryūken Williams -- Placing palms together : religious and cultural dimensions of the Hsi Lai Temple political donations controversy / Stuart Chandler -- Ritual and the performance of Buddhist identity among Lao Buddhists in North America / Penny Van Esterik -- Night-stand Buddhists and other creatures : sympathizers, adherents , and the study of religion / Thomas A. Tweed -- The new Buddhism : some empirical findings / James William Coleman -- Supply and demand : the appeal of American Buddhism -- Phillip Hammond and David Machacek -- Local inter-Buddhist associations in North America / Paul David Numrich -- The Pacific Buddha's wild practice : Gary Snyder's environmental ethic / Charles R. Strain -- The internet as window onto American Buddhism / Richard P. Hayes -- The academic study of Buddhism in America : a silent sangha / Charles S. Prebish -- Buddhist studies at Naropa : sectarian or academic? / Robert E. Goss -- Buddhist worlds in the U.S.A. : a suvey of the territory / Richard Hughes Seager -- Dissertations and theses on American Buddhism / compiled by Duncan Ryūken Williams -- North American dissertations and theses on topics related to Buddhism / compiled by Duncan Ryūken Williams
Notes
"The present volume has its origins in a conference ... held at the Harvard Divinity School in May 1997"--Pref
