Introduction: Paying Homage to the Buddha in the West 1 PART I PROFILING GLOBAL BUDDHISM: A DESCRIPTION OF THE LANDSCAPE 1. Who Is a Buddhist? Night-Stand Buddhists and Other Creatures 17 2. The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West 34 3. Protective Amulets and Awareness Techniques, or How to Make Sense of Buddhism in the West 51 4. Studying the Spread and Histories of Buddhism in the West: The emergence of Western Buddhism as a New Subdiscipline with Buddhist Studies 66 PART II DIFFUSION: THE HISTORIES OF BUDDHISM IN WESTERN COUNTRIES 5. Buddhism in Europe: Past, Present, Prespects 85 6. American Buddhism in the Making 106 7. Buddhism in Canada 120 8. The Development of Buddhism in Australia and New Zealan 139 9. Buddhism in South Africa 152 10. Buddhism in Brazil and Its Impact on the Larger Brazillan Society 163 11. Buddha in the Promised Land: Outlines of the Buddist Settlement in Israel 177 CHANGE: ADAPTATIONS AND INNOVATIONS 12. Camp Dharma: Japaness-American buddhist Identity and the Internmetn Experience 191 13. The Translating Temple: Disaporic Buddhism in Florida 201 14. Repackaging Zen for the West 218 15. Scandals in Emerging Western Buddhism Scandra Bell 230 LIFESTYLE: BEING A BUDDHIST IN WESTERN SOCIETIES 16. The Challenge of Community 245 17. Buddhist Nuns: Change and Challenges 255 18. Neither Monk nor Nun: Western Buddhists as Full-Time Practioners 55 19. Virtues without Rules: Ethics Ethics in the Insight Meditation Movement 285
