A Lively Experiment
A Multireligious Historical Overview of Rhode Island
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| In the mid-to-late 1900s, the legal legacy of racist immigration exclusion from the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 (which barred or limited all new U.S. immigration, especially from outside western Europe) ended with the passing of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. A new era of religious immigration then began, especially of peoples from west, south, and east Asia. One such immigrant was the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn who moved to Providence in 1972, and, with no money and no knowledge of English, worked there as a washing machine repairperson. After some time he met Brown University's buddhologist Professor Leo Pruden who invited him to give talks on Buddhism at Brown University. Seung Sahn soon gathered a number of student followers, eventually giving rise to the Providence Zen Center—the first Zen Buddhist monastery in the country—and the Kwan Um School of Zen—now an international school based in Cumberland, Rhode Island, with 34 centers in the United States and 57 centers worldwide. |
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