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Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan
Author | : James Edward Ketelaar |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691221892 |
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How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state.
Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West
Author | : Judith Snodgrass |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0807854581 |
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Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.
Zen at War
Author | : Brian Daizen Victoria |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2006-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781461647478 |
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A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.
Soto Zen in Meiji Japan The Life and Times of Nishiari Bokusan
Author | : Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781312770911 |
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Rescued from the Nation
Author | : Steven Kemper |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2015-01-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226199078 |
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Dharmapala is a galvanizing figure in Sri Lanka's recent history, widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose 'protestant' reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement and ethnic confrontation. Yet he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, dealing with other concerns. Steven Kemper re-evaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings that paint a picture not of a nationalist zealot but of a spiritual seeker earnest in his pursuit of salvation.
Zen Classics
Author | : Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Zen Buddhism |
ISBN | : 0195175263 |
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A companion volume to 'The Koan' and 'The Zen Canon' this text concentrates primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought the Zen tradition to fruition.
Mah y na Phoenix
Author | : John S. Harding |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1433101408 |
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The remarkable group of Japanese Buddhists who traveled to Chicago's Columbian Exposition to participate in the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions combined religious aspirations with nationalist ambitions. Their portrayal of Buddhism mirrored modern reforms in Meiji, Japan, and the historical context of cultural competition on display at the 1893 World's Fair. Japan's primary exhibit, the Hō-ō, or phoenix, Pavilion, provided an impressive display of traditional culture as well as apt symbolism: for Japan's modern rise to prominence, for Buddhist renewal succeeding devastating Meiji persecution, for Mahāyāna revitalization following withering attacks of Western critics, and for Chicago's own resurrection from the ashes of the Great Fire. This book examines the Japanese delegates' portrayal of Mahāyāna Buddhism as authentically ancient, pragmatically modern, scientifically consistent, and universally salvific. The Japanese delegates were active, and relatively successful agents who seized the opportunity of the 1893 forum to further their own objectives of promoting Japan and its Buddhism to the West, repairing negative evaluations of the «great vehicle» of Buddhism, differentiating Japanese Buddhism from the Buddhism of other countries, distinguishing their tradition as the evolutionary culmination of all religions, and shaping modern Buddhism in Asia and the West.
Curators of the Buddha
Author | : Donald S. Lopez Jr.,Donald S. Lopez |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1995-08-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226493091 |
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A critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, incorporating insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies. Social, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of Buddhist studies are discussed.