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Old wisdom in the New World : Americanization in two immigrant Theravada Buddhist temples

Title
Old wisdom in the New World : Americanization in two immigrant Theravada Buddhist temples / Paul David Numrich.
Author
Numrich, Paul David, 1952-
Publication
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1996.

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Description
xxiv, 181 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Wat Dhammaram (Chicago, Ill.) > History
  • Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History
  • Theravāda Buddhism > United States > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-176) and index
Contents
Theravada Buddhism -- Theravada Buddhism in America -- A study in Americanization -- Chicago : Wat Dhammaram -- Los Angeles : Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara -- Temple life and focus -- Chronologies of the schisms -- Underlying tensions -- The monastic staffs -- Vinaya in america : dilemmas and adaptations -- Ecumenism -- The parallelism thesis -- Evidence of parallelism -- Implications of parallelism -- Temple rituals and religious activities -- Festivals -- The second generation -- Spiritual biographies -- Personalities, perspectives, practices -- Lay Ordination -- Familiar themes -- The (re)emergence of a new theme.
Call Number
*OLWL 96-3768
ISBN
087049905X (cl. : alk. paper)
LCCN
95004361
OCLC
32275970
Author
Numrich, Paul David, 1952-
Title
Old wisdom in the New World : Americanization in two immigrant Theravada Buddhist temples / Paul David Numrich.
Imprint
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-176) and index
Research Call Number
*OLWL 96-3768
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