"In this unprecedented book, contributors use Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions, both ancient and modern, and deploy critical philosophy of race, and critical whiteness studies, to address the proverbial elephant in the room-whiteness"--.

• Cover
• Buddhism and Whiteness
• Series page
• Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Notes
• Chapter 1
  • “We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You This Very Important Public Service Announcement . . .”
    • “We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You This Very Important Public Service Announcement . . .”: aka Business as Usual in the Academy
    • “Taking Refuge: The POC Silent Retreat as Temporary Shelter and Sanctuary in Time”
    • Bodies—Choice as an Essential Tool in My Buddhist killjoy Survival Kit
    • Notes
• Chapter 2
  • Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism
    • Buddhist Modernism in Asia
    • Buddhist Modernism in North America: Meditation-Based Convert Buddhism
    • POC Challenges to Whiteness in Meditation-Based Convert Buddhism
    • Larry Yang: Dharma as Culture and Community
    • Zenju Earthlyn Manuel: Dharma as Embodied Difference
    • After Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Collective, and Contextual Turns
    • Notes
• Chapter 3
  • White Delusion and Avidyā
    • White Ignorance
    • Avidyā in Buddhist Philosophy
    • Avidyā and White Ignorance
    • Ways Out of White Delusion?
    • Reflecting on Causation as an Antidote to Delusion
    • Cultivating Equanimity
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 4
  • Whiteness and the Construction of Buddhist Philosophy in Meiji Japan
    • Philosophy and Whiteness
    • The Ambiguous Claims of “Whiteness” in Japan
    • “Religion” in Japanese Discourse
    • Inoue and the Construction of Buddhist Philosophy
    • Whiteness and Buddhist Philosophy Today
    • A Dharma-Philosophy of Liberation
    • Conclusion: Buddhist Orthopraxy in the Temple of Philosophy
    • Notes
• Chapter 5
  • Racism and Anatta
    • Non-Self and the Black Body
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 6
  • “The Tranquil Meditator”1
    • A Conundrum
    • Turn Toward the Subject
    • Who is the Subject?
    • This is Not a Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 7
  • “Beyond Vietnam”
    • The African American Presence in the Vietnam War
    • Martin Luther King, Jr., Beyond Vietnam
    • Thích Nhất Hạnh, Engaged Buddhism, and Civil Rights
    • Ralph Steele: Tending the Fire
    • Conclusion: The Fire
    • Notes
• Chapter 8
  • The Unbearable Will to Whiteness
    • Prophetic Praxis
    • Beings are Numberless
    • I Vow to Transform Them
    • Sweet Honey in the Rock
    • Notes
• Chapter 9
  • Making Consciousness an Ethical Project
    • Moral Phenomenology and the Ethical Ramifications of Experience
    • Undoing the Habit of Self-Cherishing: Mahāyāna Buddhist Ethics
    • Contesting Habits of Whiteness: Moral Phenomenology in White Anti-Racism
    • The Moral-Phenomenological Value of Naming and De-Centering Our Orientation
    • Notes
• Chapter 10
  • “bell hooks Made Me a Buddhist”
    • Approach and Methods
    • How Did bell hooks Make Me a Buddhist?
    • “True-True” Mindfulness and Buddhist Practice
    • Non-Liberating Approaches to Buddhist and Other Mindfulness Practices
    • “True-True” “Critical Consciousness”/Liberating Philosophies
    • Non-Liberating Attempts at “Critical Consciousness”/Liberating Philosophies
    • “True-True” Buddhist/Mindfulness Practice with Critical Consciousness
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 11
  • Excoriating the Demon of Whiteness from Within
    • The Complexities of Whiteness in Vajrayana: Intersecting Colonialisms
    • Diagnosing and Understanding Whiteness from Within the Tradition: White Devils
    • Whiteness as a Klesha
    • New Directions and Avenues for Disrupting Whiteness
    • Notes
• Chapter 12
  • The Interdependence and Emptiness of Whiteness
    • The Emptiness of Social Categories
    • Process Nominalism and Apoha
    • The Biological Fragility of Whiteness
    • The Social Fragility of Whiteness
    • Vāsanās, Learning, and Preparedness
    • The Interdependence of Social Categories
    • Shifting Karmic Flows
    • Notes
• Chapter 13
  • Taking and Making Refuge in Racial [Whiteness] Awareness and Racial Justice Work
    • Part 1: Taking Refuge as a Pathway to Racial Awareness
    • Part 2: Making Refuge as a Pathway to Racial Justice
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 14
  • A Buddhist Phenomenology of the White Mind
    • Notes
• Chapter 15
  • The White Feminism in Rita Gross’s Critique of Gender Identities and Reconstruction of Buddhism
    • Meeting Rita: The Obstacle of Female Birth
    • Man-made or Human-made?: Intersectionality and Blindspots
    • Seeing into the Lived Realities of Others and Evolving Identities
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Afterword
  • Note
• Bibliography
• Index
• Contributor Notes