A globalização do budismo

In this article, I argue that the globalization of Buddhism is part of a much larger phenomenon of the globalization of culture. While until the 18th century there was a 'thin' globalization in which Buddhism was disseminated only in Asia, today we have a 'dense' globalization, in which Asia is not the only center from which the global flows of Buddhism depart. In this age of “global Buddhism”, the flows spread through the world like a rhizome, various traditions coexist in the same place, and the centers of various traditions can be located outside of Asia (and influence Buddhism in Asia itself). Here I show how the globalization of Buddhism has generated processes of hybridism and resistance and occurs through the five dimensions of global cultural economy identified by Appadurai (people, media, technology, goods, and ideas).