Add to ORKGThe first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist Theosophical Society in Ceylon who took pansil (refuges and precepts) between 1880 to 1907 or later, tied to their work with the BTS’ modernising Buddhist schools. This article uses the life of Dr John Bowles Daly as a lens to explore these “conversions” and the BTS’ educational turn. Daly (c. 1844 – c. 1916), an Irish writer and ex-Anglican curate, played an important role in Buddhist schooling in Ceylon in the early 1890s. The article discusses why western BTS members took pansil and how this was understood, as well as the lack of western bhikkhu (monk) ordinations in Ceylon. The new lay-run schools slowly became established as a suitable ...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that th...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
Shortly after Mme Blavatsky’s death in May 1891, a London correspondent for the New York Sun intervi...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that the...
The modernization of Buddhism since the late nineteenth century has mostly been interpreted as a pro...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that th...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that th...
FL Woodward, born in Norfolk in 1871, was inspired by the late nineteenth century fascination with B...
FL Woodward, born in Norfolk in 1871, was inspired by the late nineteenth century fascination with B...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that th...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
Shortly after Mme Blavatsky’s death in May 1891, a London correspondent for the New York Sun intervi...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that the...
The modernization of Buddhism since the late nineteenth century has mostly been interpreted as a pro...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that th...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that th...
FL Woodward, born in Norfolk in 1871, was inspired by the late nineteenth century fascination with B...
FL Woodward, born in Norfolk in 1871, was inspired by the late nineteenth century fascination with B...
This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that th...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
Shortly after Mme Blavatsky’s death in May 1891, a London correspondent for the New York Sun intervi...