Buddhism in America / Richard Hughes Seager.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: background. Introduction -- The American Buddhist landscape -- Very basic Buddhism -- Three vehicles -- The American setting -- Part two: major traditions. Introduction -- Jodo Shinshu: america's old-line Buddhists -- Soka Gakkai and its nichiren humanism -- Zen and its flagship institutions -- The Tibetan milieu -- The Theravada spectrum -- Other Pacific rim migrations -- Part three: selected issues. Introduction -- Gender equity -- Socially engaged Buddhism -- Intra-Buddhist and interreligious dialogue -- Making sense of Americanization -- Profiles -- Chronology.

"This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S. ... [its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective."--Religious Studies Review.