Preface: Buddhism beyond Borders Scott A. Mitchell and Natalie E. F. Quli Acknowledgments Section I. Boundaries, Borders, and Categories 1. Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism: Toward “Translocative” Analysis Thomas A. Tweed 2. Regionalism within North American Buddhism Jeff Wilson 3. Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism Wakoh Shannon Hickey Section II. Crossing Borders: Transcultural and Translocative Flows 4. “First White Buddhist Priestess”: A Case Study of Sunya Gladys Pratt at the Tacoma Buddhist Temple Michihiro Ama 5. Invoking the Dharma Protector: western Involvement in the Dorje Shugden Controversy Jeannine Chandler 6. Zen at a Distance: Isolation and the Development of Distant Membership Helen J. Baroni Section III. Free-Flowing Dharma Discourses 7. Dharma Images and Identity in American Buddhism Richard Hughes Seager 8. Telling Tales Out of School: The Fiction of Buddhism Kimberly Beek 9. Mind Full of God: “Jewish Mindfulness” as an Offspring of Western Buddhism in America Mira Niculescu Section IV. Modernity and Modernities 10. The United States of Jhāna: Varieties of Modern Buddhism in America Erik Braun 11.Buddhism and Multiple Modernities David L. McMahan 12. Buddhist Modernism as Narrative: A Comparative Study of Jodo Shinshu and Zen Natalie E. F. Quli and Scott A. Mitchell Afterword: Buddhism beyond Borders Beyond the Rhetorics of Rupture Richard K. Payne Works Cited List of Contributors