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Converting American Buddhism Second-Generation Buddhist Americans, Orientalism, and the Politics of Family Religion Converting American Buddhism Second-Generation Buddhist Americans, Orientalism, and the Politics of Family Religion Drew Baker CLAREMONT STUDIES IN INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE 2 Converting American Buddhism Second-Generation Buddhist Americans, Orientalism, and the Politics of Family Religion ©2020 Claremont Press 1235 N. College Ave. Claremont, CA 91711 ISBN 978-1-946230-40-9 (print) 978-1-946230-43-0 (ebook) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Converting American Buddhism: Second-Generation Buddhist Americans, Orientalism, and the Politics of Family Religion / Drew Baker XV + 394 pp. 22 x 15 cm. –(Claremont Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 2) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-946230-40-9 (print) 978-1-946230-43-0 (ebook) 1. Children—Religious life. 2. Families— United States. 3. Buddhism—United States. BQ5430 .B35 2020 Cover: Image by อคั รวฒั น ์ใจเพ็ชร from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/thailand-asia-buddha-mandalay- 2630779/ v For my father and my children— one generation before me and one after vi Contents Acknowledgements xi The Family Album Buried in the Closet 1 Rediscovering a Genealogy from Buddhist American Converts to Second-Generation Buddhist Americans When Two Means One 69 Retracing Scholarly Traditions on Buddhism in the United States The Mountain of Youth 123 Converting American Buddhism and the Authority of the Monk-Convert Paradigm From Master’s Tools to Child’s Toys 209 Remaking the Political as Personal Child’s Mind, Parent’s Mind 289 viii Nightlight Buddhists, Alternative Linages of Authority, and (Dis)Placing the Buddhist American Canon Conclusion 343 Buddhism in the Made and the Creative Possibilities of Tradition Bibliography 369 Index 391 ix
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