Unfortunately, this is a video clip. Hope you get to see this.
A distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology to map the spread of various strands of Buddhism from the distant past to the present. Series: "Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society"
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=14331
Dr. Lewis Lancaster
Dr. Lewis Lancaster is a professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley and has been an adjunct professor at UWest since 1992. He has served as the Chair of Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley and Editor of the Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series. Dr. Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems, The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch'an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea.
http://www.uwest.edu/zbxe/?mid=REL002&document_srl=101240
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He often use the word 'religion' with Buddhism, which I see as a sigh of lack of in depth understanding about Buddhism.
He says if you put the word 'Zen', you get more hits on the web than if you use the word 'Church'.
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