Abstract: Since the end of 2019, the world population has been convulsed by the irruption of a previously unknown virus that spreads rapidly and claims thousands of fatalities every day. Many countries around the globe have closed their borders and decreed quarantine or preventive social isolation, disrupting the daily life of the international community in a way never seen before. In this context, the use of new information and communications technology has increased as a way of continuing with activities that were carried out in person until recently, such as work, study, social relations and the practice of religion. In this work we explore the changes observed in the use of the internet in the framework of Buddhist groups in Argentina due to the crisis generated by Covid-19, especially investigating the creation of new online rituals and the construction of a sense of community that it crosses local, national and global borders.
Keywords:
Buddhism; internet; Covid-19; ritual