We must ask ourselves if the Americanization of Zen now under way is a necessary cultural adaptation or a justification for the co-optation of Zen by secular materialists.
Author Affiliation: Helen Tworkov is Tricycle's founding editor and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers (1989). She's also the co-author of Turning Confusion Into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (2014) and In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying (2019), which she wrote with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
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Enlightenment (buddhism); buddhism--united States; Culture and religion--united states; 禪宗=Zen Buddhism=Zazen Buddhism; Ethics, buddhist
