Prologue: Thus have I heard: an American sutra -- 1. America: a nation of religious freedom? -- December 7, 1941 -- American Buddhism: migrations to freedom -- Buddhism as a national security threat -- Surveilling Buddhism -- Compiling registries -- 2. Martial law in the land of aloha -- Buddhist life under martial law -- Camps in the land of aloha -- 3. Japanese America under siege -- War hysteria -- Tightening the noose -- Executive Order 9066 -- The forced "relocation" -- 4. Camp Dharma -- The Dharma in the high-security camps -- Lotus blossoms above muddy water -- 5. Sangha behind barbed wire -- Horse stable Buddhism -- "Barrack churches" in camp -- 6. Reinventing American Buddhism -- Adapting Buddhism -- Sect and trans-sect -- Interfaith cooperation -- Rooting the Sangha -- 7. Onward Buddhist soldiers -- Richard Sakakida, American spy -- The military intelligence service (mis) -- Draftees and volunteers -- The 100th Battalion -- The 442nd Regimental Combat Team -- 8. Loyalty and the draft -- The loyalty questionnaire -- Tule Lake Segregation Center -- Leave clearance and the draft -- 9. Combat in Europe -- Dog tags -- Chaplains -- Fallen soldiers -- 10. The resettlement -- Return to a hostile West Coast -- Temples as homes -- Resettling in Hawai'i and Japan -- Buddhism in America's heartland -- Epilogue: The stones speak: an American sutra
