From Catholic to Chemist to Buddhist Missionary:
How an Italian immigrant from Brooklyn helped to bring the Dharma back to India

By Philip Deslippe

11 pages

With a convert’s zeal, the young monk resolved to travel

The story of the Venerable Lokanatha and his many—successful and unsuccessful—attempts to win over converts to Buddhism across the modern world.

About: Buddhism Comes West

Published in 2017 in Tricycle.

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    author={Philip Deslippe},
    year=2017,
    month=dec,
    journal={Tricycle},
    pagecount=11,
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