03983nam 22006735 450 991096895530332120220426164348.09780226628233022662823X10.7208/9780226628233(CKB)4100000008045135(MiAaPQ)EBC5755914(StDuBDS)EDZ0002153349(DE-B1597)535632(OCoLC)1099255596(DE-B1597)9780226628233(Perlego)1852576(EXLCZ)99410000000804513520200406h20192019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSeeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the formation of modern Japanese Buddhism /Richard M. JaffeChicago :University of Chicago Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (310 pages)Buddhism and ModernityPreviously issued in print: 2019.9780226391151 0226391159 9780226391144 0226391140 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Locating Tenjiku -- 1. South Asian Encounters: Kitabatake Dōryū, Shaku Kōzen, Shaku Sōen, and the First Generation of Japanese Buddhists in South Asia -- 2. Kawaguchi Ekai, Globalization, and the Promotion of Lay Buddhism in Japan -- 3. Following the Cotton Road: Japanese Corporate Pilgrimage to India, 1926- 1927 -- 4. Buddhist Material Culture, "Indianism," and the Construction of Pan- Asian Buddhism in Twentieth- Century Japan -- 5. Global Waves on Ōmura Bay: The English Translation of the Gedatsu dōron (Th e Path of Freedom) -- 6. Deploying South Asian Buddhism -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- IndexThough fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist knowledge beginning in 1873. Analyzing the impact of these voyages on Japanese conceptions of Buddhism, he argues that South Asia developed into a pivotal nexus for the development of twentieth-century Japanese Buddhism. Jaffe shows that Japan's growing economic ties to the subcontinent following World War I fostered even more Japanese pilgrimage and study at Buddhism's foundational sites. Tracking the Japanese travelers who returned home, as well as South Asians who visited Japan, Jaffe describes how the resulting flows of knowledge, personal connections, linguistic expertise, and material artifacts of South and Southeast Asian Buddhism instantiated the growing popular consciousness of Buddhism as a pan-Asian tradition-in the heart of Japan.Buddhism and modernity.Chicago scholarship online.BuddhismJapanHistory1868-1945BuddhistsTravelSouth AsiaHistory19th centuryBuddhistsTravelSouth AsiaHistory20th centuryJapaneseTravelSouth AsiaHistory19th centuryJapaneseTravelSouth AsiaHistory20th centuryJapanRelationsSouth AsiaSouth AsiaRelationsJapanBuddhismHistoryBuddhistsTravelHistoryBuddhistsTravelHistoryJapaneseTravelHistoryJapaneseTravelHistory294.30952Jaffe Richard M.1954-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut690310DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910968955303321Seeking Sakyamuni4344327UNINA