Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus

Buddhism in the networked age

Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus looks closely at what happens when Buddhist practice, teaching, and community move into online spaces. Edited by Gregory Price Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger, the volume gathers essays that trace Buddhism across websites, blogs, social media, mobile devices, virtual worlds, and other digital settings.

Rather than treating technology as a side note, the book asks how digital media shape identity, authority, ritual, and participation. That makes it especially useful for readers interested in religion as lived online: not as an abstract idea, but as something negotiated through platforms, interfaces, communities, and everyday habits.

What the volume explores

• ethnographic and case-study approaches to online Buddhist practice
• historical perspectives on digital Buddhism
• questions of community, legitimacy, and religious presence online
• the role of virtual worlds, blogs, apps, and websites in contemporary Buddhist life

A strong fit for scholars of religion and media

This is a multidisciplinary collection, bringing together studies of Buddhism with methods drawn from religious studies, media analysis, and digital culture research. Its structure makes it easy to approach chapter by chapter, while still building a broader picture of an evolving field.

For readers tracking the intersection of Buddhism and technology, this volume offers a focused, well-edited look at a subject that has only grown more relevant.