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Differences between Asian and non-Asian Buddhists say linguistic and ethnic divides can be a major deterrent to Asian and non-Asian Buddhist interactions...
...Vietnamese-American Zen Buddhist who says she knows no non-Asian Buddhists at Harvard, says these are difficulties a non-Vietnamese might encounter at the Buddhist temple she goes to once a month, since services are conducted entirely in Vietnamese...
...other hand, some practicing Asian Buddhists experience a sense of they perceive the Buddhist sects that they practice are not those popular with converts...
Kelly M. Yamanouchi '00, a Japanese-American and a Crimson editor, was raised an active member of the Buddhist Jodo Shinshu sect, but had trouble identifying with the rest of the Harvard Buddhist Community when she briefly attended a meeting last year...
...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...