various immigrant and refugee populations (chinese, tibetan, thailand, lao, japanese, korean, burmese/myanmar, and vietnamese) have tried to replicate or maintain their traditions in canada, while small numbers of canadians of non-asian ancestry have also been converting to , buddhism. the book "choosing buddhism" by the cultural anthropologist mauro peressini provides a survey of the history buddhism in canada and documents the conversion to buddhism of eight notable contemporary canadian buddhists including ajahn viradhammo, jim bedard, albert low, taigen henderson, zengetsu myōkyo, louis cormier, kelsang drenpa and tsultrim palmo.