Religion:Jewish Buddhist
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Short description: Person with a Jewish background who practices a form of Dhyanam Buddhist-linked meditation, yoga, chanting or spirituality
A Jewish Buddhist (or JewBu,[1] a term first brought into wide circulation with the publication of The Jew in the Lotus (1994) by Rodger Kamenetz.[2]) is a person with a Jewish background who practices forms of Dhyanam Buddhist meditation, chanting or spirituality. In such cases when the individual practices a particular religion, it may be both Judaism and Buddhism. However, their ethnic designation is often Jewish while the individual's main religious practice is Buddhism.
Notable people
- Bhikkhu Bodhi[3]
- Sylvia Boorstein[4]
- Thubten Chodron[5]
- Leonard Cohen[6][7]
- Surya Das[8]
- Robert Downey Jr.[9]
- Mark Epstein[10]
- Anthony Ervin[11]
- Zoketsu Norman Fischer[12]
- Allen Ginsberg[13]
- Philip Glass[14]
- Tetsugen Bernard Glassman[15]
- Craig Taro Gold[16]
- Natalie Goldberg[17]
- Yuval Noah Harari[18][circular reference]
- Joseph Goldstein[19]
- Daniel Goleman[20]
- Dan Harris[21]
- Goldie Hawn[22]
- Jon Kabat-Zinn[23]
- Ayya Khema[24]
- Jack Kornfield[25]
- Jay Michaelson[26]
- Ethan Nichtern[27]
- Mandy Patinkin[28]
- Jeremy Piven[29]
- Linda Pritzker[30]
- Nick Ribush
- Jonathan F.P. Rose[31]
- Larry Rosenberg[32]
- Sharon Salzberg[33]
- Nyanaponika Thera[34]
- Helen Tworkov[35]
- Adam Yauch[36]
- Shinzen Young[37]
See also
- Adi-Buddha
- Ātman (Buddhism)
- Buddha-nature
- Creator in Vajrayana Buddhism
- God in Buddhism
- Hasidic Judaism
- Hinduism and Judaism
- Immanence
- Jews and Buddhism
- Jewish meditation
- Kabbalah
- Mindfulness
- Sanghyang Adi Buddha
References
- ↑ Frankel, Ellen (January 24, 2013). "5 Reasons Jews Gravitate Toward Buddhism". HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/5-reasons-jews-gravitate-toward-buddhism_b_2520948. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Shupac, Jodie (August 23, 2017). "The Jubu in the Lotus: Why do so many Jews become Buddhist?". Canadian Jewish News. https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/jews-become-buddhist. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ "An Interview with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi". Urban Dharma. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma3/interview.html. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ Fleet, Josh (September 28, 2011). "Is The Jew Still In The Lotus?". Huffington Post. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/jewish-meditation-movement_n_913445.html. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Daikini Power". http://www.dakinipower.com/thubten-chodron. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ Rohter, Larry (February 25, 2009). "On the Road, for Reasons Practical and Spiritual". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/arts/music/25cohe.html. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Wolfson, Elliot R. (2006). "New Jerusalem Glowing: Songs and Poems of Leonard Cohen in a Kabbalistic Key". Kabbalah: A Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts (15): 103–152.
- ↑ Das, Surya (1998). Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World. Broadway. pp. 40. ISBN 0-7679-0157-6. https://archive.org/details/awakeningbuddhaw00sury.
- ↑ De Vries, Hilary (November 21, 2004). "Robert Downey Jr.: The Album". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/music/21devr.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
- ↑ "You Can’t Fail at Meditation". Lion's Roar. April 12, 2015. http://www.lionsroar.com/cant-fail-meditation/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Swimming Heroes From the past". Splash Magazine. http://www.bobschaller.com/SplashIrv.pdf. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ Loundon, Sumi (2006). The Buddha's Apprentices: More Voices of Young Buddhists. Boston: Wisdom Publications. pp. 125–130. ISBN 086171332X. https://books.google.com/books?id=CdCBgXgnXukC&pg=PA125.
- ↑ Ginsberg, Allen (April 3, 2015). "The Vomit of a Mad Tyger". Lion's Roar. http://www.lionsroar.com/the-vomit-of-a-mad-tyger/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ Gordinier, Jeff (March 2008), "Wiseguy: Philip Glass Uncut", Details, http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/men-of-the-moment/200802/wiseguy-legendary-composer-philip-glass?currentPage=2, retrieved November 10, 2008
- ↑ Christopher S. Queen. "Buddhism, activism, and Unknowing: a day with Bernie Glassman (interview with Zen Peacemaker Order founder)". Tikkun 13 (1): 64–66. http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-EPT/christo.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
- ↑ Taro Gold Biography
- ↑ "Natalie Goldberg & Beate Stolte: A Jew in Germany". Upaya Institute and Zen Center. June 28, 2010. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150910195102/https://www.upaya.org/2010/06/a-jew-in-germany/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ Yuval Noah Harari
- ↑ "Multiple Religious Identities: The Experiences of Four Jewish Buddhist Teachers". http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a23ac8e4b05fd98a111e34/t/52a88d78e4b025722daf96c6/1386777976250/2012Sept.Goldstein.pdf. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn't Sure". Religion Dispatches. November 15, 2013. http://religiondispatches.org/will-mindfulness-change-the-world-daniel-goleman-isnt-sure/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ Harris, Dan (2014). 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, And Found Self-Help That Actually Works-A True Story. pp. 85–96.
- ↑ "Interview With Goldie Hawn". CNN. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/24/lkl.01.html. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
- ↑ Booth, Robert (October 22, 2017). "Master of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn: ‘People are losing their minds. That is what we need to wake up to’". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/22/mindfulness-jon-kabat-zinn-depression-trump-grenfell. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Wheeler, Kate Lila (1999). "I Give You My Life". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. https://tricycle.org/magazine/i-give-you-my-life/. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ "How Jack Kornfield Went From Ivy League Grad To Buddhist Monk (VIDEO)". The Huffington Post. December 18, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/jack-kornfield-monk_n_4462183.html. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Jay Michaelson". New York Insight. https://www.nyimc.org/teachers/jay-michaelson/. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Nichtern, Ethan (June 1, 2018). "Ep. 1 - Introducing the Road Home Podcast with Ethan Nichtern". https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-road-home-with/ep-1-introducing-the-road-KkQ8YlhqFoH/. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Paskin, Willa (September 9, 2012). "Mandy Patinkin on Season Two of 'Homeland'". New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/arts/tv/fall-2012/mandy-patinkin-2012-9/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Jeremy’s journey". Star-ecentral.com. 2006-10-17. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. https://archive.is/20070930165159/http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2006/10/17/tvnradio/15610460&sec=tvnradio. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ↑ Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Linda Pritzker July 2018
- ↑ IN PERSON; Developer With Eye To Profits For Society" By TINA KELLEY April 11, 2004
- ↑ "The Art of Doing Nothing: Amy Gross interviews Larry Rosenberg". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Spring 1998. http://www.tricycle.com/feature/art-doing-nothing. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Yid Lit: Sharon Salzberg". The Forward. February 24, 2011. http://forward.com/articles/135681/yid-lit-sharon-salzberg/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Buddhism and Judaism: Exploring the phenomenon of the JuBu". Thubten Chodron. March 19, 2010. http://thubtenchodron.org/2010/03/jewish-buddhists/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "The Jewish-Buddhist Encounter". MyJewishLearning. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-jewish-buddhist-encounter/. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Buddhism In America". Time. October 13, 1997. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,987164,00.html.
- ↑ "The Point of Contact". Shinzen Young. Fall 2005. Archived from the original on May 8, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120508042313/http://www.shinzen.org/Articles/artTricycle-Point.htm. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
Further reading
- Kamenetz, Rodger (1995), The Jew in the Lotus, [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco, ISBN 978-0060645748
- Bader, David M. (2002), Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment, Harmony, ISBN 978-0609610213
- Tatz, Akiva (2005), Letters to a Buddhist Jew, Targum Press, ISBN 978-1568713564
- Boorstein, Sylvia (1998), That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist, HarperOne, ISBN 978-0060609580, https://archive.org/details/thatsfunnyyoudon00boor
- Drescher, Frank (2017), Jewish Converts to Buddhism and the Phenomenon of "Jewish Buddhists" ("JuBus") in the United States, Germany and Israel, Grin Publishing, ISBN 9783668514034
- Lew, Alan (2005), Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life, Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 978-0316739108
- Musch, Sebastian. Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture. Between Moses and Buddha(1890-1940). Palgrave 2019. ISBN:978-3-030-27468-9.
External links
- The “Oy Vey” School of Buddhism
- AFC News Source – Jews by birth who practice Buddhism
- Story of a Jewish Buddhist
- You don't look Buddhist
- A frank encounter between religious Jews and Tibetan Buddhists
- Excerpt from Letters to a Buddhist Jew by Akiva Tatz
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