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'''Modern Buddhism''' may refer to:
'''Modern Buddhism''' encompasses a [[modern]] approach to a wide number of [[Buddhist]] beliefs applicable to contemporary circumstance.


*Contemporary [[Buddhism#Buddhism in the modern era|Buddhism]]
Renunciation of worldly matters, devotional practices, ceremonies and the invocation of [[bodhisattvas]] among other widely-accepted precepts are perceived to be inconvenient or impracticable
*[[Buddhist modernism]], new movements based on modern era reinterpretations of Buddhism
to many self-declared [[21st century]] Buddhists as highlighted by a review of living Buddhists found on the [[list of buddhists]]. The rejection of enlightenment-thinking, a pillar of [[modernism]], also challenges traditional Buddhist principles.
*[[Buddhism in the West]]
**[[Buddhism in Europe]]
**[[Buddhism in the United States]]


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Modern Buddhism includes a number of contemporary or modernized Buddhist movements such as [[Humanistic Buddhism]], linkage between [[Buddhism and Gnosticism]], [[Sōka Gakkai]] or [[Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism]], the [[Vipassana movement]], [[New Kadampa Tradition]], and [[Fo Guang Shan]] among others.

==References==

*Donald S. Lopez Jr, '''A Modern Buddhist Bible''', Beacon Press Books, 2002, ISBN 0-8070-1243-2
*James, Alan and James, Jacqui, '''Modern Buddhism''', Aucana, 1989, ISBN 0-9511-7691-9
*Daniel A. Metraux, '''The International Expansion of a Modern Buddhist Movement: The Soka Gakkai in Southeast Asia and Australia''', University Press of America, 2001, ISBN-13: 9780761819042
*Charles S. Prebish, and Martin Baumann, '''Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia'''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN 0-520-23490-1

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Latest revision as of 18:58, 15 February 2023

Modern Buddhism may refer to: