What Is the Sound of One Invisible Hand Clapping?: Neoliberalism, the Invisibility of Asian and Asian American Buddhists, and Secular Mindfulness in Education > Secular mindfulness requires an ideology of white conquest that makes invisible the enduring efforts of Asian and Asian-American Buddhists in maintaining the legacy of mindfulness practices.

📑 Neoliberalism, the Invisibility of Asian and Asian American Buddhists, and Secular Mindfulness in Education (A free, 13-page paper from 2016)

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Mind Cure and Meditation at Greenacre and Beyond > Leaders of New Thought were first exposed to Buddhism and Vedanta philosophy through the publications of European Orientalists and the Theosophical Society and, later, though personal contacts with Asian Buddhist and Hindu missionaries. > In addition to D. T. Suzuki, who helped to spark American interest in Japanese Zen, other important early missionaries were Anagarika Dharmapāla, a Sri Lankan Buddhist and Theosophist, and Swami Vivekenanda, an Indian monk of the Ramakrishna Order who launched the Vedanta Society in North America. > New Thought leaders, Theosophists, and Asian missionaries met in person at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions and continued to develop relationships for more than a decade, particularly at the Greenacre conferences in Eliot, Maine. > This chapter reveals the transnational nature of New Thought, which is typically considered to be an American metaphysical religious movement.

📑 Mind Cure and Meditation at Greenacre and Beyond (A free, 37-page paper from 2019)

Tags: #USA #SecularDharma #NewAge