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Series Editor’s Preface In telling and analyzing the story of a Buddhist retreat center in New Zealand, Sally McAra delves into major issues of contemporary transculturality. Affiliated with the British-based Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, the Anglo-European founders brought a distinctive and sensitive approach to exploring their relationship as settlers to local spiritual forces and to their own inherited and adopted traditions. The mix is complex, and McAra uses carefully defined analytical tools to elucidate this intriguing case of European, Asian, and Polynesian interactions. This is an important contribution to this series, which is dedicated to the examination of the contemporary developments of Buddhism in traditional places like Taiwan and Japan, but also its remarkable passages to countries such as Brazil and New Zealand. George J. Tanabe, Jr. Series Editor ...

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