Rescued from the Nation ：Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World ( Buddhism and Modernity )

Publication subTitle ：Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World

Publication series ：Buddhism and Modernity

Author： Steven Kemper  

Publisher： University of Chicago Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9780226199108

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226199078

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780226199078

Subject： B9 Religion

Keyword： Dharmapala, Anagarika, -- 1864-1933., Buddhist monks -- Sri Lanka -- Biography.

Language： ENG

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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 ethnic confrontation. 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 nationalist zealot but of a spiritual seeker earnest in his pursuit of salvation.  
           
Drawing on huge stores of source materials—nearly one hundred diaries and notebooks—Kemper reconfigures Dharmapala as a world-renouncer first and a political activist second. Following Dharmapala on his travels between East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, he traces his lifelong project of creating a unified Buddhist world, recovering the place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, and imitating the Buddha’s life course. The result is a needed corrective to Dharmapala’s embattled legacy, one that resituates Sri Lanka’s political awakening within the religious one that was Dharmapala’s life project. 

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Contents

Contents

Preface

Preface

Introduction: World Renunciation in a Nineteenth-Century World

Introduction: World Renunciation in a Nineteenth-Century World

Chapter 1. Dharmapala as Theosophist

Chapter 1. Dharmapala as Theosophist

Chapter 2. Buddhists in Japan

Chapter 2. Buddhists in Japan

Chapter 3. Universalists Abroad

Chapter 3. Universalists Abroad

Chapter 4. Dharmapala, the British, and the Bengalis

Chapter 4. Dharmapala, the British, and the Bengalis

Chapter 5. Dharmapala and the British Empire

Chapter 5. Dharmapala and the British Empire

Chapter 6. World Wanderer Returns Home

Chapter 6. World Wanderer Returns Home

Afterword

Afterword

Appendix 1. The Diaries and Notebooks Explained

Appendix 1. The Diaries and Notebooks Explained

Appendix 2. A Chronology of the Life of Anagarika Dharmapala

Appendix 2. A Chronology of the Life of Anagarika Dharmapala

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

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