The Jubus, Jewish-Buddhists: “A Mixed Judaism”?

By Lionel Obadia
English

In the last three decades, in North America, Western Europe and Israel, the Jubus (Jewish-Buddhists) are the promoters of a genuine spiritual symbiosis. Based upon first-hand ethnography and second hand documentary material, this paper highlights the cultural and religious intermingling between Buddhism and Judaism, and its results: spiritual cobbling, conversion, or reconversion (to Judaism), and finally questions the endurance of this “Buddhized Judaism”.

Keywords

  • Jubus
  • Buddhism
  • Judaism
  • conversion
  • identity
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