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Prebish, C.S. (1999) Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America University of California Press. Ratanamani, M. (1960) History of Shin Buddhism in the United States. University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations 119. Seager, R.H. (2012) Buddhism in America, revised and expanded edition Columbia University Press, New York.
Bishop of the Buddhist Churches of America (2020–) Rev. Marvin Harada reciting a text at the White House Vesak celebration in May 2021 Marvin Harada (born 12 September 1953) is a Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist minister within the Buddhist Churches of America , and serves as its bishop since 1 April 2020.
In 2008, he was a visiting professor of Buddhism [1] at Harvard Divinity School where his studies focused on the Buddhist monk Shinran. [2] Seth Evans is a scholar and educator who specializes in the Abhidhamma Pitaka (abhidhammapiṭaka) and the Visuddhimagga. He is known for his work in the phenomenological aspects of Buddhist psychology.
Prior to the establishment of the Institute of Buddhist Studies as an accredited graduate school in 1985, BCA ministers have historically been all male and ethnically Japanese, trained at Nishi Hongan-ji in Japan, but there are now a substantial number of female, and non-Japanese ministers. In 2022, the BCA appointed their first female ...
In 2011, New York became the sixth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriages. At that time Archbishop Champion, as the president of the local Interfaith clergy association PAPA, was one of a number of local clergy interviewed about the development. He said that the freedom to marry is a civil right all Americans should have:
Italian Roman Catholic bishop [73] Géry Leuliet: 1910–2015: 104: French Roman Catholic bishop [74] Albert Malbois: 1915–2017: 101: French Roman Catholic bishop [75] Bernard Joseph McLaughlin: 1912–2015: 102: American Roman Catholic bishop [76] Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero: 1909–2012: 102: Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Mahanayaka of ...
He was head of the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom, which has temples in Ann Arbor, Chicago, Toronto, Mexico City, and New York City, along with a retreat center in Upstate New York. Hye Am [42] (1884–1985) brought lineage Dharma to the United States.
The Complete Guide to Buddhist America, Shambhala, 1998. ISBN 1-57062-270-1; Miller, Timothy. America's Alternative Religions, State University of New York Press, 1995. ISBN 0-7914-2398-0; Paine, Jeffrey. Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes To The West, publisher unknown, 2004. ISBN 0-393-32626-8; Prebish, Charles S. and Kenneth Kenichi Tanaka.