Buddhist culture in the west: tradition and modernity

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Article devoted to the phenomenon of Buddhist culture in the West. Traces the history of the spread of Buddhism in Europe and the USA. The author notes that as a result of the spread of the West directions and various Buddhist schools there gradually formed the so-called " globalized " or transnational Buddhism, which, unlike traditional forms is largely free from the context of specific cultural traditions. Pragmatism , tolerance , democracy and doctrinal "flexibility" of Buddhism enabled him to get the current global distribution . Buddhism has become one of the most influential parts of the sociocultural landscape in the process of globalization.

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• буддизм
• буддийская культура
• Запад
• Европа
• эллинизм
• греко-буддистское искусство
• иезуиты
• буддология
• теософия
• эмигранты
• толерантность
• глобализация
• Buddhism
• Buddhist culture
• West Europe
• and Hellenism
• Greco-Buddhist art
• the Jesuits
• Buddhologist
• Theosophy
• immigrants
• tolerance
• globalization
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