d8be680d-2310-11ee-a077-c9de5a43d6bf /periodicals/.content/issue-items/TSFgsihbPeriodicalContent_02375.xml Transcending Borders: Using Regional and Ethnographic Studies to Envision the Future of Humanistic Buddhism

Arizona is a region where the population of Chinese Buddhists is low and the general populations of both Asian-Americans and Buddhists are small. Thus Buddhist communities find themselves not only distant from large centers of Buddhism in California, but also isolated from each other. A study of two very different approaches to Buddhism in Arizona may shed light on the future of Humanistic Buddhism (literally “Buddhism in the midst of people”) in similarly sparsely- populated regions of the United States.