Alison Cohn Jameson

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies & Religious Studies, University of Arizona

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Ellison Onizuka (1946-1986) made this observation upon viewing the Earth from Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, Onizuka became the first Asian-American and the first Buddhist to reach space. Raised as a Shin Buddhist in Hawaii affiliated with the Kona Hongwanji, Onizuka was struck by the lack of boundaries or borders—political, racial, or egoistic—visible from such a distance.

Alison Cohn Jameson, " Transcending Borders: Using Regional and Ethnographic Studies to Envision the Future of Humanistic Buddhism, " 2019人間佛教高峰論壇──人間佛教與未來學 (2020): 278-296COPY