Community/SANGHA
Community/SANGHA
FPMT’s Transnational Buddhists
In this chapter, I also introduce the readers to the particular transnational Tibetan Buddhist community working to build the Maitreya Statue. This chapter provides an overview of Global Buddhism today with special attention to issues of community and identity for FPMTers. In the literature on Global Buddhism, disparate communities of practice are often differentiated with imprecise or careless terminology: 1) for example, Jan Nattier’s use of “ethnic” vs. “elite,” which overstates racial and class factors; or, by using the term “convert,” which is anathema to some people labelled thusly. This chapter makes a substantive contribution to the issue of properly naming disparate practitioners, as I’ve posited a heritage spectrum of practitioners that more sensitively works to contextualize various Buddhists.
Keywords: Heritage, Heritage spectrum, Global Buddhism, FPMT, Non-heritage Buddhist, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Transnational Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism
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