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Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection

Flashpoints for Asian American Studies October 3, 2017 Sharon A. Suh

Chapter 15 seriously scrutinizes the relationship of Buddhism, “one of America’s racialized other religious darlings,” to Asian American studies, which has yet to consistently recognize religion as a legitimate site upon which to map race, gender, and sexuality. Suh argues that “the common Buddhist units of measure and authenticity” —for instance, Orientalized monks and Eastern meditation— “are...