Wikipedia's article on Buddhism in the United States, community-edited. Reliable for the standard, well documented dates: the Sze Yap Company's 1853 San Francisco temple, the first in the country, and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where Soyen Shaku and Anagarika Dharmapala presented Buddhism to a wide non-Asian audience for the first time; not the right source for a contested claim about any one Buddhist school's doctrine.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_United_States
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the settled 1853 first-temple date and the settled 1893 Parliament of Religions date, both standard and uncontroversial. NotesUsed for Buddhism's documented arrival and early growth in the United States.
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This source names Anagarika Dharmapala directly: "in Chicago, where Soyen Shaku and Anagarika Dharmapala presented Buddhism to a wide non-Asian audience for the first time; not the right source for a contested claim about any one Buddhist school's..."
This source names Chicago directly: "World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where Soyen Shaku and Anagarika Dharmapala presented Buddhism to a wide non-Asian audience for the first time; not the right source for a contested claim..."
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Spread Events, 10 claims: 4 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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