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Emergent Dharma’ will offer essays from 11 Asian American women writers who confront the whitewashed, patriarchal and ...

Buddhism initially came to America with Chinese and Japanese immigrants in the late 1800s, but Westerners began to take interest in practicing Buddhism themselves in the 1950s and ’60s.

Buddhism is very anti-essentialism, and essentialism includes seeing essence of groups, which is what racism is. If you view all Trump supporters as bigots or idiots, I think that’s a big mistake.