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Arun at Angry Asian Buddhism has published a lovely essay by Alan Senauke called " Race and Buddhism " that I encourage you to go and read.

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Arun at Angry Asian Buddhism has published a lovely essay by Alan Senauke called "Race and Buddhism" that I encourage you to go and read. I just want to add a few observations.

The essay is written from the perspective of a Zen student, mostly about American Zen, which stubbornly remains overwhelmingly white. As I pointed out in a recent blog post on working-class Buddhism, Nichiren Buddhism in America does not seem to have that problem. I say "seem" because I have no recent data to go by, but it's my understanding that at least 20 percent of Soka Gakkai membership in the U.S. is African American.

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Buddhism and Barriers originally appeared on About.com Buddhism on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 at 14:11:07.

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