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I want to assert I\u2019ve thought Buddhadharma<\/a> the best of the current crop of North American Buddhist<\/a> magazines for ages. And not just because they quote me extensively in Barry Boyce\u2019s insightful essay on the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship. It\u2019s also in the same issue that has my review of Isabel Stirling\u2019s Zen Pioneer: The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki. <\/p>\n

I was a little surprised at the numbers Mr Boyce says I give to UU Buddhists (50,000). Now it is qualified with the line \u201cbroadest possible defintion.\u201d Still, I do think that\u2019s a bit on the enthusiastic side, even if it\u2019s my enthusiasm. At the same time I\u2019ve been told by friends in ministerial search this year that most churches do cite a lot of UUs with a signficant interest in Buddhism<\/a>. Whether ten thousand or fifty thousand, it is a lot of us\u2026<\/p>\n

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