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A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860-1960
Contributor(s): Bocking, Brian (Editor), Choompolpaisal, Phibul (Editor), Cox, Laurence (Editor)

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ISBN: 1138789585     ISBN-13: 9781138789586
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $220.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism - History
Dewey: 294.3
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" L (0.95 lbs) 204 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
 
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buddhism in Asia was transformed by the impact of colonial modernity and new technologies and began to spread in earnest to the West. Transnational networking among Asian Buddhists and early western converts engendered pioneering attempts to develop new kinds of Buddhism for a globalized world, in ways not controlled by any single sect or region. Drawing on new research by scholars worldwide, this book brings together some of the most extraordinary episodes and personalities of a period of almost a century from 1860-1960. Examples include Indian intellectuals who saw Buddhism as a homegrown path for a modern post-colonial future, poor whites 'going native' as Asian monks, a Brooklyn-born monk who sought to convert Mussolini, and the failed 1950s attempt to train British monks to establish a Thai sangha in Britain. Some of these stories represent creative failures, paths not taken, which may show us alternative possibilities for a more diverse Buddhism in a world dominated by religious nationalisms. Other pioneers paved the way for the mainstreaming of new forms of Buddhism in later decades, in time for the post-1960s takeoff of 'global Buddhism'.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.

 
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