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2 unusual facts about Buddhist modernism


Buddhist modernism

Moreover, it has its own cosmopolitan lineage and canonical "scriptures," mainly the works of popular and semischolarly authors—figures from the formative years of modern Buddhism, including Soen Shaku, Dwight Goddard, D. T. Suzuki, and Alexandra David-Neel, as well as more recent figures like Shunryu Suzuki, Sangharakshita, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Chögyam Trungpa, and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

Modern Buddhism

Buddhist modernism, i.e. forms of Buddhism that have emerged from engagement with the dominant cultural and intellectual forces of modernity, or a specific form/concept of Buddhist modernism, as described by the scholar Donald S. Lopez Jr.



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