The Washington Post, March 10th, 2004
RE-ENCHANTMENT Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West By Jeffery Paine. Norton. 288 pp. $24.95 Tibetan Buddhism has entered the American mainstream in the past two decades, surpassing even the 1960s and '70s heyday of popular experimentation with Eastern religions. Why this is so demands an explanation. Adherents of Tibetan Buddhism speak of it as the fastest growing religion in the West, although first-generation Californians of Catholic Hispanic origins and Muslims of North African origins in France could probably challenge that claim. Nevertheless, this strain of Buddhist practice has gone, w...
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