“Protestant Buddhism”
The term βProtestant Buddhismβ was introduced in 1970 by Gananath Obeyesekere to describe a development in Ceylonese Buddhism that started with Anagarika DharmapΔla almost a century earlier. The notion was further developed in a 1988 book he co-authered with Richard Gombrich, but variants of the term have also been used outside the Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) context β in reference to certain trends in Western Buddhism, for example, as well as to the switch from βself-powerβ θͺε jiriki to βother-powerβ δ»ε tariki in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. The term is also sometimes used in a more general sense in reference to...