Buddhism_In_America

Buddhism In America E Pluribus Unum, a phrase that we hear more and more ever since September 11th. By now we all know its meaning, “From Many, One”. This phrase applies more today than ever. Today our cultural differences are magnified with the new immigration. It’s not just Swedes and Italians, Lutherans and Catholics, but Russian and Iranian Jews, Pakistani and Bengali Muslims, Trinidadi and Gujarati Hindus, Punjabi Sikhs and Sindhi Jains. Creating the unum from the pluribus is now more challenging than ever” (Eck 29). Our country is a large melting pot consisting of many different cultures, religions, and ethnicities. Buddhism, becoming popular in the 1950’s has been increasing its numbers and presence in America. “By 1997 more than a thousand Buddhist meditation and buddhism, today, eck, america, now, god, ever, unum, presence, practice, pluribus, phrase, new, nation, meditation, los, centers, buddhist, angeles, across, very, untouched, united, under, trust’, trinidadi, thousand, though, swedes, sure, states, start