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Pooja Ahuja

Secular Buddhism’s Roots in South Asia

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The history of post-colonial Buddhism is a history of local, indigenous, and more or less orthodox attempts to compete with Christian proselytization, and to come to terms with the changes brought about by modernity. To do this, local innovators brought the theory and practice of Buddhism out of monasteries and into homes and lives of laypeople, setting it on a path of increasing secularization...

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