ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the final conclusion of the evolutionary logic, and shows that Metaphysical Buddhists posited a future utopia, founded in America and presided over by “true Aryans.” It details Metaphysical Buddhist arguments which combined notions of Aryanism as an explanation for all human development with ideas of evolutionary progress to posit a future Buddhist utopia in America. Buddhist magazines and other primary sources posited the United States as a future Buddhist utopia, which would reverse the historical corruption of the Aryan religious tradition perpetrated by “racially inferior” Asians. Although the idea of a mystical Aryan utopia is jarring and directly tied to racism for modern readers, Buddhists in America also utilized this idea to promote the Dharma through the 1940s and 1950s.
