Featuring An Tran
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AN'S PRESENTATION SLIDES FROM THE WEBINAR:
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Closed captioning thanks to Don Rombach.
We’re so grateful for the opportunity to have An join us in the closing webinar of this series. The conversation will be centered around attempting to decolonize American Buddhism from its anti-Asian and white supremacist roots. It does this by exposing the history of how American Buddhism was constructed out of revisionist history that was often upheld through violence.
Asians practice the Buddhadharma indigenously, so the communities can see and interact with indigenous Asian Buddhism. It is practiced in all its form, as intellectual, academic and meditative as "western" Buddhism, so people in the Asian American communities might be treated as intellectual equals, rather than subordinates.
In this webinar, we will learn:
about the imperialist construction of Buddhist modernism and suppression of old traditions
how Buddhism has syncretized with world views in the past and how western syncretization has differed
myths about Buddhism perpetuated by western scholarship and white supremacy
AN TRAN’S BIO:
An Tran is a writer of fiction and essays from Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of Meditations on the Mother Tongue and has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, The Literary Hub, Gargoyle Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has received ‘Notable Work’ distinctions from the Best American series and nomination for the Pushcart Prize.
Please join us for this very important conversation. We look forward to seeing you!
Additiona resources from An
Most references An will cite in this webinar are from texts: Kate Crosby's Esoteric Theravada (2020); David McMahon's The Making of Buddhist Modernism (2008); Paul Williams' Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, 2nd edition (1989/2009); Thich Thien An's Buddhism and Zen in Vietnam (1975)
Thich Minh Quang. "Vietnamese Buddhism in America." Florida State University, 2007.
Contact An by emailing:
author@an-tran.com
Closed captioning thanks to Don Rombach.
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