... son. He even went so far as to name his son, "Rahula" or "fetter" (this all in his life before his search for peace). The chains that bore him together in his present life would be broken and so he went on in his journey to attain enlightenment or Nirvana ... the other hand are formerly Christian Americans who have converted to Buddhism, who are looking for an American Buddhist identity, and who thus want to separate Buddhism from its Asian cultural roots This movement had developed the same spiritual independence in regard to Buddhist (male-dominated) institutions that Christian women h...

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