This presentation, based on empirical study undertaken from 2023 to 2024 on the changing landscape of Buddhism in Italy, aims to analyze practitioners' perceptions of new technology, emphasizing two prominent patterns. Firstly, Italian Buddhists show a far deeper degree of technological trust than the largely Catholic public in Italy. Techno-optimist Buddhists, negotiating this trust within a moderate utopian framework, perceive tools like AI and virtual and augmented realities as unparalleled tools for enhancing practice and disseminating the Dharma. On the other hand, an analogous yet opposing trend arises among techno-pessimist Buddhists, who have a specific skepticism about the potential risks of depersonalizing the practice, particularly with uncritical and unreflective use of technology. This presentation leverages Jenna Burrell's (2016) construct of technical opacity to develop an interpretative framework for analyzing the connections among téchne, Buddhist beliefs, and the artificial regime emerging within Italian communities of practice.