Buddhist Self-Ordination: A Dharma Strategy for the West - Alexander Duncan
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Buddhist Self-Ordination: A Dharma Strategy for the West
Alexander Duncan
Synopsis "Buddhist Self-Ordination: A Dharma Strategy for the West"
This booklet explores the Dharma Transmission to the West from its origin in 1908 with the First Buddhist Mission to the West to the arrival of today's Asian immigrant teachers and schools, and asks the fundamental question: What is the right relationship between the DTW and the West? Is the West merely a passive receiver of dharma, or will the DTW transform Buddhism itself? The author seeks for the answer in Buddhist history, and finds it in the Mahayana rite of self-ordination, which he presents in a close English paraphrase of the Tibetan rite together with an essay on the relationship between the Mahayana precepts and the Vinaya.
