Richard Seager, the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, was interviewed for an article in the Austin American-Statesman that examined the growth in Buddhism in the United States. In "American Lama Puts his Twist on Buddhism" published on March 23, Seager said that "the need to reinterpret for and in the West is seen increasingly to be the wise option." Responding to a discussion of possible tension between Buddhists who are immigrants and those who are American-born converts, he pointed out that this kind of tension is not unique to Buddhism. Seager is the author of Buddhism in America.
