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- Title Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
- Author Richard M. Jaffe
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
- ISBN 9780226391144 / 0226391140
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress subjects Buddhism - Japan - History - 1868-1945, Buddhists - Travel - South Asia - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018043832
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.309
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New. Though 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 Sakyamuni, 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…
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