Native American Buddhist Spirituality (live)

Ananda M. (Dharma Meditation Initiative, Los Angeles), Jen, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhism arrived in the Americas long before Spanish Catholicism and British Christianity.

So when Buddhism returned, it had a natural affinity for Native American traditions particularly of the Southwest and Mexico (Mesoamerica).

Our history of Buddhist contact was wiped from memory by centuries of European colonialism, but the core shamanic worldview remained.

• See: Rick Fields' How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America
• Edward Vining's An Inglorious Columbus: Evidence that Hwui Shan and a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the 5th Century AD
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

FREE LIVE EVENT: L.A., Feb. 22, 2018, 6:30pm

Dharma Meditation Initiative, Los Angeles - Pasa Dharma - Dharma Punx Valley

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On Thursday we will talk with a local Kizh/Tongva (Los Angeles' pre-Columbus tribe) American Indian Buddhist, smudge with sage, use essential oils and crystals, talk about the world's largest pyramid (which is not in Egypt but in the Americas, in Cholula, Mexico), and complete the loop of the circle.