Message from victoriachan

[Anonymous]

After listening to Professor Meeks’ lecture on Buddhism and seeing how so many people had questions about it, it made me think about how oftentimes, the history of Buddhism is not well-known in the U.S. As a result, much of the population has misconceptions about it, and it leads to potential appropriation. The following article was one I found, and I think it’s important that when Buddhism is taught in school that we need to not culturally appropriate it. Otherwise, it is counterproductive to teaching our students about diversity.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/07/culturally-appropriating-buddhism/