Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth,
virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent
before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking
Sakyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first
Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist
knowledge beginning in 1873. Analyzing the impact of these voyages
on Japanese conceptions of Buddhism, he argues that South Asia
developed into a pivotal nexus for the development of
twentieth-century Japanese Buddhism. Jaffe shows that Japan's
growing economic ties to the subcontinent following World War I
fostered even more Japanese pilgrimage and study at Buddhism's
foundational sites. Tracking the Japanese travelers who returned
home, as well as South Asians who visited Japan, Jaffe describes
how the resulting flows of knowledge, personal connections,
linguistic expertise, and material artifacts of South and Southeast
Asian Buddhism instantiated the growing popular consciousness of
Buddhism as a pan-Asian tradition--in the heart of Japan.
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