Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community, and Practices in the Virtual World of Second Life
by
Gregory Price Grieve
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical...