27 Facts About Western Buddhism

Greco-Western Buddhism was an important religion among the Greco-Bactrians and the Indo-Greeks.

Western Buddhism wrote several books in Tibetan which promoted Christianity and critiqued Buddhism.

Western Buddhism founded various branches of the Buddhist Theosophical Society in his first visit to Sri Lanka and wrote Buddhist educational literature.

The work of the French orientalist Eugene Burnouf is some of the first academic work on Western Buddhism which includes a French translation of the Lotus sutra from Sanskrit.

Western Buddhism laid the foundation for the study of Sanskrit Buddhist texts.

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Hermann Oldenberg's 1881 study on Western Buddhism, entitled Buddha: his life, his doctrine, his order, based on Pali texts was an early influential work which critiqued the solar myth theory.

Religion scholars specialized in the academic study of Western esotericism recognize that Theravada Buddhism had been influential on the philosophical and religious thought of the English occultist and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley, although he eventually distanced himself from Theravada Buddhist teachings and founded his own religion.

An important event in the history of Western Buddhism was the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago organized by John Henry Barrows and Paul Carus.

Western Buddhism spoke English with a passion which stirred the audience and drew much attention.

Western Buddhism's disciple, the elder Nyanaponika, was a co-founder and president of the Buddhist Publication Society and author of the influential book on meditation, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation.

In 1954, Nyanatiloka and Nyanaponika were the only two Western Buddhism-born monks invited to participate in the Sixth Buddhist council in Yangon, Burma.

Western Buddhism credited himself as the compiler and editor of these volumes, with translation by Tibetan Buddhists, primarily Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup.

Western Buddhism founded the Buddhist Peace Fellowship along with Beat poet Gary Snyder and Joanna Macy.

Western Buddhism founded the San Francisco Zen Center during the middle of the 60s counterculture.

Since the 1970s, interest in Tibetan Western Buddhism grew dramatically, especially due to the arrival of Tibetan lamas in the West after the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the creation of a Tibetan diaspora.

Western Buddhism then gave back his robes and went to North America.

Western Buddhism has attracted celebrity religious followers such as Richard Gere and Adam Yauch.

Tibetan Lamas and their Western Buddhism students worked to translate and publish Tibetan Buddhist texts, establishing publishers such as Wisdom Publications and Shambala Publications.

Japanese Zen and Tibetan Western Buddhism has been especially influential in these countries in the post-war 20th century.

Today, Western Buddhism is practiced by increasing numbers of people in the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

Some Western Buddhism Buddhists are actually non-denominational and accept teachings from a variety of different sects, which is far less frequent in Asia.

Western Buddhism has been influenced by the insights of western psychology and psychotherapy and many Buddhist teachers in the West are licensed therapists.

Western Buddhism taught authentic Buddhist teachings within a modern-day context by making a clear distinction between the cultural aspects of Tibetan Buddhism and the fundamental teachings of Buddhism.

Western Buddhism stripped away the ethnic baggage from traditional methods of working with the mind and delivered the essence of those teachings to his western students.

Western Buddhism's innovative Shambhala Training system was a secular path for the cultivation of the contemplative life.

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Western Buddhism-based Chinese Buddhist organizations are some of the most numerous immigrant Buddhists and include the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association, Fo Guang Shan and the Tzu Chi foundation.

Largest Buddhist temple in the Southern Hemisphere is the Nan Tien Temple, situated at Wollongong, Australia, while the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Buddhism Hemisphere is the Hsi Lai Temple, in Hacienda Heights, California, USA.