Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West [electronic resource] : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition / by Judith Snodgrass

Author:: Snodgrass, Judith
Published:: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: NetLibrary, Inc

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Japan faces the West -- Manifest destiny: Christianity and American imperialism -- The rules of the parliament: securing the truth -- Alterity: Buddhism as the "other" of Christianity -- Buddhism and modernity in Meiji Japan -- Buddhist revival and Japanese nationalism -- Deploying western authority 1.: Henry Steel Olcott in Japan -- Buddhism and treaty revision: the Chicago project -- Defining Eastern Buddhism -- Paul Carus: Buddhism and Monist mission -- Deploying western authority 2.: Carus in translation -- From Eastern Buddhism to Zen: a postscript.

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080786319X (electronic bk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-343) and index.

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