Learning from the West, Learning from the East: The Emergence of the Study of Buddhism in Japan and Europe before 1900
Published on 6. September 2023
Book
Hardback
378 pages
978-90-04-67954-2 (ISBN)
Description
The essays collected in this volume for the first time foreground the fundamental role Asian actors played in the formation of scholarly knowledge on Buddhism and the emergence of Buddhist studies as an academic discipline in Europe and Asia during the second half of the nineteenth century.
The contributions focus on different aspects of the interchange between Japanese Buddhists and their European interlocutors ranging from the halls of Oxford to the temples of Nara. They break the mould of previous scholarship and redress the imbalances inherent in Eurocentric accounts of the construction of Buddhism as an object of professorial interest.
Contributors are: Micah Auerback, Mick Deneckere, Stephan Kigensan Licha, Hans Martin Kraemer, Omi Toshihiro, Jakub Zamorski, Suzanne Marchand, Martin Baumann, Catherine Fhima, and Roland Lardinois.
The contributions focus on different aspects of the interchange between Japanese Buddhists and their European interlocutors ranging from the halls of Oxford to the temples of Nara. They break the mould of previous scholarship and redress the imbalances inherent in Eurocentric accounts of the construction of Buddhism as an object of professorial interest.
Contributors are: Micah Auerback, Mick Deneckere, Stephan Kigensan Licha, Hans Martin Kraemer, Omi Toshihiro, Jakub Zamorski, Suzanne Marchand, Martin Baumann, Catherine Fhima, and Roland Lardinois.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-67954-2 (9789004679542)
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Hans Martin Kraemer, Ph.D. (2005), Ruhr University Bochum, is Professor of Japanese Studies at Heidelberg University. He specializes in modern Japanese history and has recently published the co-edited volumes Buddhism and Modernity (Hawai'i UP, 2021) and Theosophy Across Boundaries (SUNY Press, 2020).
Stephan Kigensan Licha, Ph.D. (2012), SOAS, is Assistant Professor of Japanese Buddhism at the University of Chicago. He specializes in the history of Japanese Buddhism and recently published the monograph Esoteric Zen: Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan (Brill, 2023).
Stephan Kigensan Licha, Ph.D. (2012), SOAS, is Assistant Professor of Japanese Buddhism at the University of Chicago. He specializes in the history of Japanese Buddhism and recently published the monograph Esoteric Zen: Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan (Brill, 2023).