Admittedly, we Buddhists in America are few when compared with our sisters and brothers from, say, the Judeo-Christian religious traditions; the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey found that those who identify as Buddhist comprise 0.7% of the US population. Still, according to the think tank’s findings, of the five major world religions, Buddhism has the third largest following in the United States, with more adherents than Islam and Hinduism. In addition, Buddhist Americans comprise an incredibly unique and vibrant population—so much so that Los Angeles, for example, has become, as Harvard Divinity School’s Diana L. Eck has noted, “the most complex Buddhist city in the entire world.”