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Introduction: encounters at a multidenominational temple in the South -- Bringing a regional perspective to American Buddhism -- The gift of light: Buddhist circuit riders and new religious developments in Richmond, Virginia -- The Buddhist confederacy: differentiation and identity in Buddhist spaces -- There's no such thing as "not my Buddhism": hybridity, boundary-crossing, and the practice of pluralistic Buddhism -- Buddhism with a Southern accent: American Buddhists in a Southern culture -- The reality of our collective karma: slave trade meditation vigil as Southern Buddhist ritual -- Conclusion: Buddhas on the backstretch.