I'm a Mexican Buddhist

Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

I'm going to do it this time. I'm going to learn Spanish in a year using Rosetta Stone and Babbel.

An inglorious Columbus; or, Evidence that Hwui Shan and a party of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan discovered America in the fifth century, a.d  (Edward Payson Vining, 1847-1920)

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Not a Nation of Immigrants

It would be so cool to be like the Kinetic Kennons and move to Mexico, blend in in the predominantly white (European) Mexican state of Jalisco, and speak Spanish that is so fluent I'm taken for a native -- a Native Mexican and a Native American (indigenous to the Americas). And I'd still be a Buddhist like my ancient ancestors, who practiced the Dharma that came to California, the Southwest, and the West Coast of the continent centuries before Catholicism, Christian missionaries, Spanish Conquistadores, and patriarchal European settler colonialism. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has a new history book about it. But American anthropologist Edward P. Vining published in 1885 (An Inglorious Columbus) and American researcher Rick Fields shows in How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Shambhala Publications).

How the Swans Came...: Buddhism in America

(Excélsior TV, Sept. 15, 2021) Lila Downs participa en el Grito de Independencia 2021. La cantante Lila Downs da voz a la fiesta de Independencia desde el Zócalo en la ciudad de Mexico.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States