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A Buddhist Crossroads - Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860-1960 (Paperback)
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A Buddhist Crossroads - Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860-1960 (Paperback)
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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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