Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition / [electronic resource] :
by Judith Snodgrass.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- 351 p. : ill. 24 cm.
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.
080786319X (electronic bk.)
World's Parliament of Religions Chicago, Ill.) (1893 :