The Lotus and the Lion : Buddhism and the British Empire /
"In The Lotus and the Lion, J. Jeffrey Franklin traces the historical and cultural origins of Western Buddhism, showing that the British Empire was a primary engine for curiosity about and then engagement with the Buddhisms that the British encountered in India and elsewhere in Asia." &quo...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The life of the Buddha in Victorian Britain
- Buddhism and the emergence of late-Victorian hybrid religions
- Romances of reincarnation, karma, and desire
- Buddhism and the empire of the self in Kipling's Kim
- Conclusion : the afterlife of Nirvana
- Appendix 1 : selective chronology of events in the European encounter with Buddhism
- Appendix 2 : summary of selected Buddhist tenets.