Dixie Dharma
Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South
Jeff Wilson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/2012
Pages: 296
Subject: Religion, Social Science, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807869970
DESCRIPTION
Introducing a host of overlooked characters, including Buddhist circuit riders, modernist Pure Land priests, and pluralistic Buddhists, Wilson shows how regional specificity manifests itself through such practices as meditation vigils to heal the wounds of the slave trade. He argues that southern Buddhists at once use bodily practices, iconography, and meditation tools to enact distinct sectarian identities even as they enjoy a creative hybridity.