Transplanting Thai Buddhism to the U.S.
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All religions, whether originating in the East or the West, are affected by their cultural context. Christianity has taken on the cultural forms of Asia, Africa, and Latin America as it has spread. It is inevitable that Thai Buddhism would be affected by its transplant to America. The problem with all religions is the difficulty of institutionalising its doctrines. This leads to the inevitable split between fundamentalists, to whom maint
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Thai Buddhism, Latin America, Easton-Waller Abbot, Iraq War, East West, , Street Monks, latin america,
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