Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South

by Jeff Wilson

Book Overview

Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. In Dixie Dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding American Buddhism. Through the lens of a multidenominational Buddhist temple in Richmond, Virginia, Wilson explores how Buddhists are adapting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807835455
• ISBN13: 9780807835456
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"