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Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World (Buddhism and Modernity)
Steven Kemper
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Description for Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World (Buddhism and Modernity)
Hardcover. Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's turbulent history. Following Dharmapala on his travels between East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North America, the author traces his project of creating a unified Buddhist world, recovering the place of the Buddha's Enlightenment, and imitating the Buddha's life course. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 480 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HRE; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 38. Weight in Grams: 868.
Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement and eventual militarization. Yet as tied to Sri Lankan nationalism as Dharmapala is in popular memory, he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, engaging other concerns. In Rescued from the Nation, Steven Kemper reevaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings, ones that paint a picture not of a ... Read more
Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement and eventual militarization. Yet as tied to Sri Lankan nationalism as Dharmapala is in popular memory, he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, engaging other concerns. In Rescued from the Nation, Steven Kemper reevaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings, ones that paint a picture not of a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Buddhism and Modernity
Condition
New
Weight
868g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226199078
SKU
V9780226199078
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About Steven Kemper
Steven Kemper is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology at Bates College and the author of The Presence of the Past and Buying and Believing, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World (Buddhism and Modernity)
"Kemper's book is a pleasure. Dharmapala was one of the key figures in the pan-Asian movements to revive Buddhism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Kemper offers intriguing details about his contributions that complicate our understanding of the Sinhalese native as he engaged with the Theosophists, British colonial officers, Bengali intellectuals, and even Japanese clergy. His book ... Read more