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J. Jeffrey Franklin - The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire - 9780801447303 - V9780801447303
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The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire

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Description for The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire Hardback. Editor(s): Feng, Zhu. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBJD1; HRE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.

Buddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of Buddhist practice within many traditions and keen interest in meditation and mindfulness. 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. As a result, Victorian and Edwardian England witnessed the emergence of comparative religious scholarship with a focus on Buddhism, the appearance of Buddhist characters and concepts in ... Read more

In this fascinating book, Franklin analyzes responses to and constructions of Buddhism by popular novelists and poets, early scholars of religion, inventors of new religions, social theorists and philosophers, and a host of social and religious commentators. Examining the work of figures ranging from Rudyard Kipling and D. H. Lawrence to H. P. Blavatsky, Thomas Henry Huxley, and F. Max Müller, Franklin provides insight into cultural upheavals that continue to reverberate into our own time. Those include the violent intermixing of cultures brought about by imperialism and colonial occupation, the trauma and self-reflection that occur when a Christian culture comes face-to-face with another religion, and the debate between spiritualism and materialism. The Lotus and the Lion demonstrates that the nineteenth-century encounter with Buddhism subtly but profoundly changed Western civilization forever.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801447303
SKU
V9780801447303
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-30

About J. Jeffrey Franklin
J. Jeffrey Franklin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel and For the Lost Boys.

Reviews for The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire
"Whereas most Victorianists are aware of such bestsellers as Edwin Arnold's poem about the Buddha, 'The Light of Asia,' few understand the sheer scope of the 19th-century Buddhism industry. Franklin collects wide-ranging references to, studies of, and polemics about Buddhism, ranging from poems and tracts to novels and religious scholarship. Drawing on postcolonial theory, especially theories of hybridity, the author ... Read more

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