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Buddhism in Canada

Buddhism in Canada
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For most of its roughly 2,500 years, Buddhism has been confined to various parts of Asia. However, at least two phenomena have introduced the tradition to a great many people outside Asia. First, of course, the interaction in the past half millennia between European scholars, clerics, merchants, soldiers, and colonizers on the one hand and the inhabitants of predominantly Buddhist (or Buddhist-influenced) regions on the other hand have brought Buddhism into the imaginations of many people in the West. While such forays into the Orient produced highly distorted images of the East that still bedevil us today (Said 1978; Paper, Paper and Lai 2005), these several centuries of interaction did lay the groundwork for the more favourable contemporary reception of Buddhism in the West.
RoutledgeCurzon; October 2005
ISBN 9781134352067
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