An American Buddhist perspective
As Americans evolve and endure significant environmental, economic, and societal changes we all experience feelings of fear, hope, and wonder. As a group, the Buddhist community seems poorly suited to embrace the needs of those looking for new answers. Of the many Buddhist sects, Zen Buddhism has enjoyed the largest increase in adherents, quite possibly as a result of practices which appear to be more practical to an American audience.
Over the past several decades many Sangha’s have been born in the U.S., most notably Chogyam Trungpa began the Shambala centers, while Thich Nhat Han brought us his flavor of Vietnamese Zen Buddhism. Still many Americans sit on the sidelines intrigued by the softer aspects of Buddhism which embrace the environment, world peace, and the application of meditation in daily life, while simultaneously turned off by certain core constructs of Buddhism which seem more nihilistic than philosophical.
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