TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaffe,Richard M.
TI  - Seeking �S�akyamuni: South Asia in the formation of modern Japanese Buddhism 
T2  - Buddhism and modernity
SN  - 9780226628233
AV  - BQ691 .J34 2019eb
U1  - 294.30952 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - 1868-1945
KW  - Buddhists
KW  - Travel
KW  - South Asia
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Japanese
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - Japon
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Bouddhistes
KW  - Voyages
KW  - Asie m�eridionale
KW  - 19e si�ecle
KW  - 20e si�ecle
KW  - Japonais
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - International relations
KW  - Relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: locating Tenjiku -- South Asian encounters: Kitabatake D�ory�o, Shaku K�ozen, Shaku S�oen, and the first generation of Japanese Buddhists in South Asia -- Kawaguchi Ekai, globalization, and the promotion of lay Buddhism in Japan -- Following the cotton road: Japanese corporate pilgrimage to India, 1926-1927 -- Buddhist material culture, "Indianism," and the construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in twentieth-century Japan -- Global waves on �Omura bay: the English translation of the Gedatsu d�oron (the path of freedom) -- Deploying South Asian Buddhism
N2  - 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 �S�akyamuni, 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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