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Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists By Chenxing Han
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?A must-read for modern sanghas?Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms.More than two thirds of U.S. Buddhists are Asian American. But you?d never guess this from mainstream representations, which all too often whitewash the racial and cultural diversity of American Buddhist communities.Be the Refuge is both critique and celebration, countering the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting their stories and experiences. The Oriental monk, the superstitious immigrant, the banana Buddhist: dissatisfied with these tired tropes, Han asks, Will the real Asian American Buddhists please stand up? Her journey to answer this question led to in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic, pan-Buddhist group of eighty-nine young adults.Weaving together the voices of these interviewees with scholarship and spiritual inquiry, this book reenvisions Buddhist Asian America as a community of trailblazers, bridge-builders, integrators, and refuge-makers. Encouraging frank
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