Why Did We Forget Western Buddhism?
I would like to start this article by asking the reader a question, “what is Western Buddhism and who are the Western Buddhists?” I suspect that many people reading this will assume that the term, “Western Buddhism,” can only refer to the work of Sangharakshita and that the most obvious example of Western Buddhists is our own sangha, the Triratna Buddhist Community. If we think of Buddhism, however, as an objective social phenomenon then strictly speaking...
