Andrew Joyce on Jewish Crypsis in American Buddhism
"It is conservatively estimated that around 30% of non-Asian Buddhists are ethnically Jewish, and many of these are in leadership positions over the remaining 70%, composed mainly of European-Americans."
theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/02/29/jew…
"It is conservatively estimated that around 30% of non-Asian Buddhists are ethnically Jewish, and many of these are in leadership positions over the remaining 70%, composed mainly of European-Americans."
theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/02/29/jew…
“From my conversations with many of these Buddhist leaders, they have spoken openly about how their commitments to social justice are shaped by their Jewish upbringings.”
Emily Sigalow, American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, 2019.
Emily Sigalow, American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, 2019.
Sigalow remarks that not only have Jews “emerged as prominent teachers and leaders,” in Zen, Insight Meditation, and Tibetan Buddhism, but that they have uniquely imbued American Buddhism with an “activist ethic” that it has lacked elsewhere and at any time previous.
whereas traditional Buddhism insisted that there is no hierarchy in suffering (all people suffer,all races suffer,and none more so than others), modern US Buddhism is obsessed with liberal-left politics, social justice activism, and a negative preoccupation with White demography.
