The Irish Buddhist is the biography of an extraordinary Irish emigrant, sailor, and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century Asia. Born in Dublin in the 1850s, U Dhammaloka energetically challenged the values and power of the British Empire and scandalized the colonial establishment of the 1900s. He rallied Buddhists across Asia, set up schools, and argued down Christian missionaries--often using western atheist arguments. He was tried for sedition, tracked by police and intelligence services, and died at least twice. His story illuminates the forgotten margins and interstices of imperial power, the complexities of class, ethnicity and religious belonging in colonial Asia, and the fluidity of identity in the high Victorian period. Too often, the story of the pan-Asian Buddhist revival movement and Buddhism's remaking as a world religion has been told 'from above,' highlighting scholarly writers, middle-class reformers and ecclesiastical hierarchies. By turns fraught, hilarious, pioneering, and improbable, Dhammaloka's adventures 'from below' highlight the changing and contested meanings of Buddhism in colonial Asia. Through his story, authors Alicia Turner, Brian Bocking, and Laurence Cox offer a window into the worlds of ethnic minorities and diasporas, transnational networks, poor whites, and social movements. Dhammaloka's dramatic life rewrites the previously accepted story of how Buddhism became a modern global religion.

The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire

Biographies & Memoirs

Cox, Laurence

Turner, Alicia

Bocking, Brian

Leaders & Notable People

Oxford University Press

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto

A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day.

History

Asia

Routledge

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Popular Dictionaries of Religion)

This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines', the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities and their respective oracle texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years, so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on developments in Japanese religious belief and practice.

The Oracles of the Three Shrines

Reference

The great Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna's writings on emptiness, sunyata, have profoundly influenced Indian, Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism for nearly 2000 years. The central statement of his thought is found in his Middle Stanzas. The Middle Treatise (T. 1564) here translated in full into English, is Kumarajiva's Chinese version of Nagarjuna's Middle Stanzas with the commentary, attributed to the monk Blue Eyes (Pingala, Vimalaksa), which exists only in the Chinese Buddhist canon. The introductory chapters set the Treatise in context within the Sino-Japanese Buddhist tradition, introduce Madhyamika ideas found in the Middle Treatise, and provide a detailed commentary on the Treatise for the modern reader, discussing each chapter and clarifying the argument of the Treatise.

Nagarjuna in China: A Translation of the Middle Treatise (STUDIES IN ASIAN THOUGHT AND RELIGION)

Nāgārjuna

Pingala

Vimalaksa

Edwin Mellen Pr

This dictionary is a comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto, ranging from brief definitions of Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, beliefs, and institutions from early times to the present. Shinto regards itself as the ancient indigenous tradition of Japan, yet it has gone through remarkable transformations, even in the last century. The dictionary explains terms relating to such matters as festivals, shrines, rituals, kami, Shinto-related religious movements, significant events, and key figures in the development of Shinto. Distinctive features of the book are its clear and concise explanations of Shinto terms, its comprehensive coverage of the dimensions of Shinto, and a religious-studies approach to the subject that deals objectively and empathetically with Shinto ideas and practices.

Sociology

NTC Pub. Group

This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines', the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities and their respective oracle texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years, so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on developments in Japanese religious belief and practice.

A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day.

This beautiful, inspiring collection highlights the timeless importance of the Chinese sage Confucius. Confucian teachings stress respect for tradition, teachers, humanity, harmonious relationships, integrity, self-restraint and loyalty--all of which still are relevant today. Color illustrations.

The Little Book of Confucian Wisdom (The Little Book Series)

Philosophy

Element Books Ltd.

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The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Popular Dictionaries of Religion)

The Oracles of the Three Shrines

Nagarjuna in China: A Translation of the Middle Treatise (STUDIES IN ASIAN THOUGHT AND RELIGION)

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto

The Oracles of the Three Shrines

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto

The Little Book of Confucian Wisdom (The Little Book Series)