Buddhist Architecture in America

Robert Edward Gordon is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Arizona, USA, and a Fellow at the UArizona Center for Buddhist Studies. His work encompasses a broad range of interests: Eastern art and architecture, art and economics, freedom and aesthetics, art and poverty, and humanistic geography. His writings can be found in The Wall Street Journal, the Japanese American National Museum’s Traveling Exhibition, the journals Space and Culture, Philosophies, Social Philosophy and Policy, The Athenaeum Review, and others.

• Introduction; 1. Buddhism and Architecture: Space, Time, and Heart; 2. Buddhist Architecture and its Nineteenth-Century American Beginnings; 3. The Twentieth-Century Expansion of Architectonic Buddhism; 4. The Proliferation of Buddhist Architecture in America; 5. The Mandala Form and Buddhist Space in America; 6. Conclusions and Considerations

"Buddhist Architecture in America: Building for Enlightenment is a magnificent contribution to the growing body of literature on Buddhism in America. It provides a brilliant and long overdue insight into an aspect of American Buddhism that has been needed for decades. Few authors have provided as comprehensive an insight into American Buddhism as Professor Gordon. It is a must read for all Buddhist Studies scholars."Charles S. Prebish, Prof. Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University, USA "As my eyes sweep over the pages of Buddhist Architecture in America, I keep thinking, if I had read Dr. Gordon’s book in the 1970s, my own understanding of architecture and religion and my own book "Space and Place" would be so much better! In the last phase of a very long life, I am happy to think that there can be genuine progress in scholarship."Yi-Fu Tuan, (late) Prof. Emeritus, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison, USA