Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daniel C. Levi '99-'00, of Deerfield, III., the son of a rabbi, insists he is still Jewish, saying he first learned about Buddhism through books. Separating Buddhist practice from the spiritual experience of being Buddhist, Levi says meditation can be a good "psychological tool" for dealing with the stresses of daily life...
Levi says that for some years he believed "the real pulp" of Buddhist religious in America were the more Western versions "with their new take on religion." The thought of traditional meditation did not occur to him until he took a class on Buddhism...
...semester and summer abroad in Thailand and India last year made Levi more aware of the complexities of the different types of Buddhism in the world today. Levi says his experience abroad prompted him to probe the religious practices of other cultures and develop his own religious rituals...
...When I was young, I was a devout atheist. I'd never been interested in Christianity because of [the conception of God]...Buddhism was a religion that didn't require that jump," Fleischman says...
Felicity Aulino '00, of Richmond, Va., whose extended family is Catholic, says she too was drawn to the flexibility of Buddhist belief. Aulino discovered Buddhism when she took a year off before college, visiting "spiritual" Savannah, Ga. with a friend to "find something...