JANET McLELLAN, Many Petals of the Lotus, Five Asian Buddhist Communities in Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 264 p.

Many Petals of the Lotus is an apt title for a book that examines Japanese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Chinese Buddhist communities, some of whom settled in Canada before the turn of the century others of more recent origin. Written in a captivating way for a general audience, this book is based on research by a competent ethnographer, who employed participant observation, among other research methods, over several years. In this ...

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