Tag: American Buddhism

  • Recordings of book talks

    Over the last six months or so, I’ve given several public talks and lectures and whatnot about The Book. The most recent of which was at the Dharma Bum Temple in San Diego. That event was live-streamed on YouTube and video can be found on their channel here. Back in November, there was a panel…

  • books, bikes, and hackers

    books, bikes, and hackers

    Less than forty-eight hours before I left home to ride my bike across California, I discovered that this site had been hacked. It’s not the first time I’ve encountered this problem — though it’s been a long, long time. Long enough that I didn’t really feel like dealing with the laborious task of reviewing all…

  • The book is a thing that exists

    The Making of American Buddhism ships today! It is a thing that exists in the real world (whatever the “real” world may be). If you pre-ordered a copy, it might very well be on a truck heading to your home right now! The book is expensive — relatively speaking. Honestly, I’m rather surprised/happy that OUP…

  • Book event updates

    We are now solidly into May, and according to the OUP website, The Making of American Buddhism is going to start shipping any moment now! So I wanted to send out a quick update about some upcoming book-related events. First and foremost, be sure to bookmark the book’s page on my website where I’ll be…

  • Book summary feedback request

    A colleague has suggested I write a summary of The Book. Over the last few years, I’ve become increasingly aware of the fact that I can be, in a word, verbose. And that my writing is prone to be overly academic in tone. The Book, of course, is an academic book. As I said to…

  • Let the shameless self-promotion begin

    As something of a (not-really) non-sequitur, I follow a couple of different Buddhist studies groups over on the Facebook hell-site; very often, people post things about their work and start off those posts with (an obligatory?) “Sorry for the self-promotion…” I’ve often wondered about that. On the one hand, there’s something to be said about…

  • the book has a cover

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  • The book: the Making of American Buddhism

    So I wrote a book. A book about Japanese American Buddhists in the 1950s & their possibility-making labor that helped make American Buddhism a thing. I came up with a title that’s exceedingly clever. And that title’s been nixed by my editor. A thread 🧵 and a plea for help 1/ — scott mitchell (@djbuddha)…

  • Kisa Gotami

    Kisa Gotami

    One of my favorite contributors to the Berkeley Bussei is Hiroshi Kashiwagi. I don’t talk about him nearly enough in The Book, but only because I don’t talk about anyone nearly enough. (Turned out to be not that kind of book, but that’s a different story.) But lucky for us, I can talk about him…

  • The Book: Mid-Century Modern Buddhism

    The Book: Mid-Century Modern Buddhism

    As I’ve hinted at in several posts over the last six months, I wrote a book. (If anyone can find that version of the “this is fine” dog meme but he’s saying “I wrote a book,” please drop a link in the comments.) And I’ve promised more details. So, here they are. I wrote a…