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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: 351 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:
  • 080786319X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 294.3/0952/091821 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ5925 .S63 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-343) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Excludes some or all of the images which were part of the original book.

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