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Author:

Jaffe, Richard M., 1954- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001057151

Title:

Seeking Śākyamuni : South Asia in the formation of modern Japanese Buddhism / Richard M. Jaffe.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

pages cm.

Subject:

Buddhism--Japan--History--1868-1945.
Buddhists--History--South Asia--History--19th century.
Buddhists--History--South Asia--History--20th century.
Japanese--History--South Asia--History--19th century.
Japanese--History--South Asia--History--20th century.
Japan--Relations--South Asia.
South Asia--Relations--Japan.
Buddhism.
International relations.
Japanese--Travel.
Japan.
South Asia.
1800-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: locating Tenjiku -- South Asian encounters: Kitabatake Dōryō, Shaku Kōzen, Shaku Sōen, and the first generation of Japanese Buddhists in South Asia -- Kawaguchi Ekai, globalization, and the promotion of lay Buddhism in Japan -- Following the cotton road: Japanese corporate pilgrimage to India, 1926-1927 -- Buddhist material culture, "Indianism," and the construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in twentieth-century Japan -- Global waves on Ōmura bay: the English translation of the Gedatsu dōron (the path of freedom) -- Deploying South Asian Buddhism.

Series:

Buddhism and modernity

ISBN:

0226391159
9780226391151
0226391140
9780226391144

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1051654923

LCCN:

2018043832

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)