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I've never heard of "Protestant Buddhism" before ! dontknow

Hmmm... apparently a phrase coined by anthropologists to describe a reaction in Sri Lanka to the British occupation:

Two prominent Sri Lankan anthropologists, Gananath Obeyesekere (1) and Kitsiri Malalgoda, (2) created the phrase Protestant Buddhism to identify a form of Buddhism that appeared in Sri Lanka as a response to Protestant Christian missionaries and their evangelical activities during the British colonial period. Buddhists not only criticized Protestant missionaries, but also adopted their strategies and models in reforming Buddhism. This process of assimilation and incorporation occurred on an ideological level as well as social and cultural levels. The emulation of Protestant models was very much apparent in the establishment of Buddhist schools and Buddhist organizations such as the Young Men's Buddhist Association. Like evangelical Protestant Christians, Buddhists also started to print pamphlets (after June 1862), to hold preaching sessions, and to enter into debates and religious controversies in defending Buddhism. In the history of religious controversies, one important event was the two-day public debate (August 26, 27, 1873) that was held in Panadura between a Sinhala Wesleyan clergyman David de Silva and Buddhist monk Mohoṭṭivatt Guṇānanda (1823-90). The arrival of Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) in Sri Lanka in 1880 marked another important phase in the shaping process of what anthropologists have identified as Protestant Buddhism.


We are still waiting for that show of hands of all, or any, who claim to be "Protestant Budhists"....