CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
The American Buddhist Landscape
CHAPTER TWO
Very Basic Buddhism
CHAPTER THREE
Three Vehicles
CHAPTER FOUR
The American Setting
PART TWO: MAJOR TRADITIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER FIVE
Jodo Shinshu: America’s Old-Line Buddhists
CHAPTER SIX
Soka Gakkai and Its Nichiren Humanism
CHAPTER SEVEN
Zen and Its Flagship Institutions
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Tibetan Milieu
CHAPTER NINE
The Theravada Spectrum
CHAPTER TEN
Other Pacific Rim Migrations
PART THREE: SELECTED ISSUES
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Gender Equity
CHAPTER TWELVE
Socially Engaged Buddhism
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Intra-Buddhist and Interreligious Dialogue
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Making Some Sense of Americanization
PROFILES
Chronology
Notes
Glossary
Resources for the Study of American Buddhism
Index