Buddhism comes to Bible Belt
Practitioners look for an inner peace, discipline, harmony with world
Friday, March 17, 2006
By KAY CAMPBELL
Times Faith & Values Editor

For Glen Adams, it was a movie. For Jeff Simson, it was a with-it teacher at his high school. And for Jim Gordon, it was a time of crisis in his marriage 17 years ago that propelled him into the self-help and spirituality sections of the bookstore to save the marriage and his own peace of mind.

But once they'd stumbled across Buddhism, all three men were surprised to find a personal resonance with ancient traditions of meditation and philosophy.

Being Buddhist in America takes a certain amount of philosophical adventurousness - or desperation, Gordon says. the rest