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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Thus Have I Heard: An American Sutra -- Buried Texts, Buried Memories -- 1. America: A Nation of Religious Freedom? -- December 7, 1941 -- American Buddhism: Migrations to Freedom -- Buddhism as a National Security Threat -- Surveilling Buddhism -- Compiling Registries -- 2. Martial Law -- Buddhist Life under Martial Law -- Camps in the Land of Aloha -- 3. Japanese America under Siege -- War Hysteria -- Tightening the Noose -- Executive Order 9066 -- The Forced "Relocation -- 4. Camp Dharma -- The Dharma in the High-Security Camps -- 5. Sangha behind Barbed Wire -- Horse Stable Buddhism -- "Barrack Churches" in Camp -- 6. Reinventing American Buddhism -- Adapting Buddhism -- Sect and Trans-Sect -- Interfaith Cooperation -- Rooting the Sangha -- 7. Onward Buddhist Soldiers -- Richard Sakakida, American Spy -- The Military Intelligence Service -- Draftees and Volunteers -- The 100th Battalion -- The 442nd Regimental Combat Team -- 8. Loyalty and the Draft -- The Loyalty Questionnaire -- Tule Lake Segregation Center -- Leave Clearance and the Draft -- 9. Combat in Europe -- Dog Tags -- Chaplains -- Fallen Soldiers -- 10. The Resettlement -- Return to a Hostile West Coast -- Temples as Homes -- Resettling in Hawai'i and Japan -- Buddhism in America's Heartland -- Epilogue: The Stones Speak: An American Sutra -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Toward a social history of Sōtō Zen -- Registering the family, memorializing the ancestors : the Zen temple and the parishioner household -- Funerary Zen : managing the dead in the world beyond -- The cult of Dōryō Daigongen : Daiyūzan and Sōtō Zen prayer temples -- Medicine and faith healing in the Sōtō Zen tradition -- The other side of Zen

This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field. Until now, few investigators have turned their attention to the interpretive challenge posed by the presence of all the traditional lineages of Asian Buddhism in a consciously multicultural society. Nor have scholars considered the place of their own contributions as writers, teachers, and practising Buddhists in this unfolding saga. In thirteen chapters and a critical introduction to the field, the book treats issues such as Asian American Buddhist identity, the new Buddhism, B.