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Person with a Jewish background who practices a form of Buddhism
A Jewish Buddhist is a person with a Jewish background who believes in the tenets of a form of
Buddhism .
Some practice forms of
Dhyanam
Buddhist meditation ,
chanting or
spirituality . When the individual practices a particular religion, it may be both
Judaism and
Buddhism . However, in many cases their ethnic designation is Jewish while the individual's main religious practice is
Buddhism .
Rodger Kamenetz introduced the term JewBu or JUBU in his 1994 book
The Jew in the Lotus .
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Origins
At the 1893
Parliament of the World's Religions , a Jewish man named Charles Strauss declared himself a Buddhist
[4] following talks by Buddhist delegates
Soyen Shaku and
Anagarika Dharmapala .
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After
Zen 's rise in popularity with the
Beat Generation , a new wave of Jews became involved with Buddhism in the late 1960s. Prominent teachers included
Joseph Goldstein ,
Jack Kornfield ,
Shinge Roshi Sherry Chayat and
Sharon Salzberg who founded the
Insight Meditation Society , Sylvia Boorstein who teaches at
Spirit Rock Meditation Center , all of whom learned
vipassana meditation primarily through
Thai teachers.
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[8] Another generation of Jews as Buddhist teachers emerged in the early 2000s, including author
Taro Gold , expounding Japanese traditions such as
Nichiren Buddhism .
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Notable people
See also
References
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Biography
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"Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Interview" (PDF) . Retrieved March 1, 2012 .
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"Yid Lit: Sharon Salzberg" .
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Albom, Mitch . Tuesdays with Morrie . Random House.
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Further reading
Kamenetz, Rodger (1995),
The Jew in the Lotus , [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco,
ISBN
978-0060645748
Bader, David M. (2002),
Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment , Harmony,
ISBN
978-0609610213
Tatz, Akiva (2005), Letters to a Buddhist Jew , Targum Press,
ISBN
978-1568713564
Boorstein, Sylvia (1998),
That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist ,
HarperOne ,
ISBN
978-0060609580
Drescher, Frank (2017), Jewish Converts to Buddhism and the Phenomenon of "Jewish Buddhists" ("JuBus") in the United States, Germany and Israel , Grin Publishing,
ISBN
9783668514034
Lew, Alan (2005), Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life ,
Little, Brown and Company ,
ISBN
978-0316739108
Musch, Sebastian. Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture. Between Moses and Buddha(1890-1940) . Palgrave 2019.
ISBN
978-3-030-27468-9 .
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