Becoming Buddhist av Dr Glenys Eddy

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<div>What does it mean to be a Western Buddhist? For the predominantly Anglo-Australian<br/>affiliates of two Western Buddhist centres in Australia, the author proposes an<br/>answer to this question, and finds support for it from interviews and her own<br/>participant-observation experience.Practitioners''<br/>prior experiences of experimentation with spiritual groups and practices-and<br/>their experiences of participation, practice and self-transformation-are<br/>examined with respect to their roles in practitioners'' appropriation of the<br/>Buddhist worldview, and their subsequent commitment to the path to<br/>enlightenment.Religious commitment is<br/>experienced as a decision-point, itself the effect of the individual''s<br/>experimental immersion in the Centre''s activities.During this time the claims of the Buddhist<br/>worldview are tested against personal experience and convictions.<br/></div><div>¿</div><div>Using rich ethnographic data and Lofland and<br/>Skonovd''s experim