Very interesting. I wonder how the idea of mysticism would intersect with Buddhism? Since the version I am most familiar with, admittedly likely this Buddhist Modernism, tends to be focused on the experiential aspects of Buddhist teachers, and mystics are focused on the direct experience of connection with the divine, did the West bring about a mystical renaissance in Buddhism? I think of the Zen (or Chan) monks who rejected the Buddhism of the court and headed for the mountains. There is plenty of evidence of this from hundreds of years before Buddhism hit the west. But, for sure, there was plenty of "religiocity" within mainstream Buddhism; I equate some sects, particularly in SE Asia, as the Buddhist equivalent of Catholicism.