Word: buddhisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duncan Williams, a half-Japanese, ordained Buddhist monk who is co-editing "American Buddhists" with Queen, says Asian circumspection about Buddhism stems in part from the religion's traditional roots. He says some see it as an impediment to assimilating into "mainstream, Christian, American culture...
...Being a Buddhist in America is like being a hyphenated America...The question is, how does one be a Buddhist and a regular American?" Williams says. "Buddhism is a minority religion...
Andrew G. Chung '98, a Chinese-American, sums the situation up for many ethnic Buddhists when he talks about the role Buddhism plays in his life...
...probably as Buddhist as you'd get, but I'm not that Buddhist," Chung says. "I have a Buddha [figure] around my neck...[but] no one knows [Buddhism] enough to know what exactly it is to say they're practicing...
...came to Harvard looking for a [Buddhist] church to continue studying Buddhism...but Zen [which many converts practice]is very different from Jodo Shinshu," she says...