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Episode Synopsis
Spellings for the recommended temple names:Seattle Koyasan (Shingon)Seattle Choeizan Enkyoji (Nichiren)Bhante Jayasara’s Maggasekha community (Theravada)Buddhist Churches of America (various)Sources:Richard Foltz 2010, Religions of the Silk RoadPaul Williams 2005 Buddhism: Buddhist origins and the early history of Buddhism in South and Southeast AsiaErik Zurcher 2007 The Buddhist Conquest of ChinaCarl Olson 2005 The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative-Historical IntroductionEdward Conze’s 2008 book, “Buddhism. A Short History”Richard F Gombrich’s 1997 book, “How Buddhism Began”
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