The Irish Buddhist
The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 July 2020
- ISBN 9780190073084
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 155x236x30 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 illustrations 75
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Short description:
The Irish Buddhist is the biography of a truly extraordinary Irish emigrant, sailor and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century Asia. Born Laurence Carroll in 1856, U Dhammaloka defied the British Empire and missionary Christianity in defense of local culture. He had five different aliases, was tried for sedition, put under police and intelligence surveillance, faked his own death, and ultimately disappeared. His dramatic life rewrites the previously accepted story of how Buddhism became a modern global religion.
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The Irish Buddhist is the biography of an extraordinary Irish emigrant, sailor, and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century Asia. Born in Dublin in the 1850s, U Dhammaloka energetically challenged the values and power of the British Empire and scandalized the colonial establishment of the 1900s. He 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 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 turns fraught, hilarious, pioneering, and improbable, Dhammaloka's adventures 'from below' highlight the changing and contested meanings of Buddhism in colonial Asia. Through his story, authors Alicia Turner, Brian Bocking, and Laurence Cox offer a window into the worlds of ethnic minorities and diasporas, transnational networks, poor whites, and social movements. Dhammaloka's dramatic life rewrites the previously accepted story of how Buddhism became a modern global religion.
an incredible portrayal not only of a shiny eccentric coalescing the dubious and the remarkable in a Buddhist guise, but of "plebeian cosmopolitan interactions across Asia ... that facilitated both the operation of colonialism and resistance to it." An ingenious book.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Introduction: A Courtroom in Rangoon
Chapter 1: Dhammaloka Before Dhammaloka: Before 1900
Chapter 2: The Irish Buddhist Wins Burmese Hearts: 1900-1902
Chapter 3: Trampling on Our Religion: 1901
Chapter 4: Tokyo. An Irish Burmese Monk in Imperial Japan: 1902-3
Chapter 5: Multiplying Buddhist Missions. Singapore, Bangkok, Penang: 1903-1905
Chapter 6: Interlude: Who was the First Western Buddhist Monk?
Chapter 7: The Vagabond Journalist's Account: 1905
Chapter 8: A Print Revolution: 1907-1908
Chapter 9: A Controversial Tour of Ceylon: 1909
Chapter 10: Dhammaloka's Last Years and a Mysterious Death: 1909-1912
Epitaph
The Irish Buddhist - timeline
Glossary
Bibliography
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