I understand @evantthompson to be saying here not that religious practice per se seeks to "sanitize" a religion, but that one particular read on that religion, Buddhist modernism, scoots some of the less scientifically compatible aspects of Buddhist practice into the corner.
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As is always the case in claiming religious authority. What gets ignored? What gets centered? And I haven't read his book yet either (tho it's sounding like maybe I should) but I think whiteness is also an important factor to remember when thinking re western approaches Buddhism.
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It's a factor, but there are a lot of Asian voices in the Buddhist modernist views I critique. My critique isn't of "western Buddhism," but of Buddhist modernism, which has always been transnational
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