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Author Turner, Alicia Marie, author.

Title The Irish Buddhist : the forgotten monk who faced down the British empire / Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages)
Summary ""The Irish Buddhist tells the story of a poor Irishman who worked his way across America as a migrant worker, became one of the very first Western Buddhist monks, and traveled the length and breadth of Asia, from Burma and present-day Thailand to China and Japan, and from India and Sri Lanka to Singapore and Australia. Defying racial boundaries, he scandalized the colonial establishment of the 1900s. As a Buddhist monk, he energetically challenged the values and power of the British empire. U Dhammaloka was a radical celebrity who rallied Buddhists across Asia, set up schools, and argued down Christian missionaries - often using western atheist arguments. He was tried for sedition, tracked by police and intelligence services, and died at least twice. His early years and final days are shrouded in mystery despite his adept use of mass media. His story illuminates the forgotten margins and interstices of imperial power, the complexities of class, ethnicity and religious belonging in colonial Asia, and the fluidity of identity in the high Victorian period. Too often, the story of the pan-Asian Buddhist revival movement and Buddhism's remaking as a world religion has been told "from above," highlighting scholarly writers, middle-class reformers and ecclesiastical hierarchies. By contrast, Dhammaloka's adventures "from below" highlight the changing and contested meanings of Buddhism in colonial Asia. They offer a window into the worlds of ethnic minorities and diasporas, transnational networks, poor whites, and social movements, all developing different visions of Buddhist and post-imperial modernities. ""-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2020)
Subject Dhammaloka, U.
Buddhist monks -- Biography
Buddhist monks
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cox, Laurence, author.
Bocking, Brian, 1951- author.
LC no. 2019048692
ISBN 9780190073114
019007311X
0190073101
9780190073091
0190073098
9780190073107