Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I
American Buddhism: A Brief History
CHAPTER 2
Shaping the Sangha: Developmental Issues in American Buddhism
CHAPTER 3
Seeking American Buddhist Sanghas: North American Buddhist Communities
CHAPTER 4
The Silent Sangha: Buddhism in the Academy
CHAPTER 5
The Cybersangha: Virtual Communities
CHAPTER 6
The Future of the American Sangha

APPENDIX:
A POSTSCRIPT ON NORTH AMERICAN BUDDHISM 
NOTES 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON BUDDHISM IN THE WEST 
INDEX 

About the Author

Charles S. Prebish is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University and author and editor of numerous works, including Buddhist Monastic Discipline (1975), American Buddhism (1979), and A Survey of Vinaya Literature (1994). He is coeditor of The Faces of Buddhism in America (California, 1998) and also coeditor of the electronic Journal of Buddhist Ethics.

Reviews

"A first-rate social and religious history."--"Publishers Weekly