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The Irish Buddhist - The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire (Hardcover)
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The Irish Buddhist - The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire (Hardcover)
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The Irish Buddhist is the biography of an extraordinary Irish
emigrant, sailor, and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and
anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century Asia. Born in
Dublin in the 1850s, U Dhammaloka energetically challenged the
values and power of the British Empire and scandalized the colonial
establishment of the 1900s. He rallied Buddhists across Asia, set
up schools, and argued down Christian missionaries-often using
western atheist arguments. He was tried for sedition, tracked by
police and intelligence services, and died at least twice. His
story illuminates the forgotten margins and interstices of imperial
power, the complexities of class, ethnicity and religious belonging
in colonial Asia, and the fluidity of identity in the high
Victorian period. Too often, the story of the pan-Asian Buddhist
revival movement and Buddhism's remaking as a world religion has
been told 'from above,' highlighting scholarly writers,
middle-class reformers and ecclesiastical hierarchies. By turns
fraught, hilarious, pioneering, and improbable, Dhammaloka's
adventures 'from below' highlight the changing and contested
meanings of Buddhism in colonial Asia. Through his story, authors
Alicia Turner, Brian Bocking, and Laurence Cox offer a window into
the worlds of ethnic minorities and diasporas, transnational
networks, poor whites, and social movements. Dhammaloka's dramatic
life rewrites the previously accepted story of how Buddhism became
a modern global religion.
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