Add to ORKGRecent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesting implications in relation to class, ethnicity and politics. ‘Beachcomber Buddhists’ highlight the wider situation of ‘poor whites’ in Asia—needed by empire but prone to defect from elite standards of behaviour designed to maintain imperial and racial power. ‘Going native’, exemplified by the European bhikkhu, highlights the difficulties faced by empire in policing these racial boundaries and the role of Asian agency in early ‘western’ Buddhism. Finally, such ‘dissident Orientalism’ has political implications, as with specifically Irish forms of solidarity with Asian anti-colonial movements. Within the limits imposed by the data, this...
This article explores some important aspects of U Dhammaloka's Buddhism, drawing in particular on th...
Globalising “Buddhism” beyond its pre-colonial homelands was a complex practical challenge. Actors s...
Information about Buddhism was scarce and vague at best in the West until the beginning of the ninet...
Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesti...
Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesti...
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...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries—roughly between t...
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 ...
This article uses a world-systems perspective to analyse the development of Buddhism in Ireland, in ...
Buddhism was first established in Australia through flows of migrants in the mid-nineteenth century,...
This review article draws attention to two recent publications with a potential to revive the debate...
This article explores some important aspects of U Dhammaloka's Buddhism, drawing in particular on th...
Globalising “Buddhism” beyond its pre-colonial homelands was a complex practical challenge. Actors s...
Information about Buddhism was scarce and vague at best in the West until the beginning of the ninet...
Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesti...
Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesti...
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...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries—roughly between t...
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 ...
This article uses a world-systems perspective to analyse the development of Buddhism in Ireland, in ...
Buddhism was first established in Australia through flows of migrants in the mid-nineteenth century,...
This review article draws attention to two recent publications with a potential to revive the debate...
This article explores some important aspects of U Dhammaloka's Buddhism, drawing in particular on th...
Globalising “Buddhism” beyond its pre-colonial homelands was a complex practical challenge. Actors s...
Information about Buddhism was scarce and vague at best in the West until the beginning of the ninet...