The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced down the British Empire
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 o...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
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Dhammaloka, U
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| Summary: | 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. cover -- Half title -- The Irish Buddhist -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Courtroom in Rangoon -- The Bible, the Bottle, and the Gatling Gun -- Bringing Dhammaloka to Book? -- The Hunt for Dhammaloka: A Detective Story across Two Centuries -- Who Was Dhammaloka? -- The Wider Imperial Context -- Why Dhammaloka? -- Going Native -- They Seek Him Here, They Seek Him There . . . -- Buddhist Studies and Dharma Bums -- Politics in the Long Term -- 1. Dhammaloka before Dhammaloka: Before 1900 -- Tracing a Life through Unreliable Accounts -- An Irish Sailor and Hobo -- Laurence Carroll's Early Years -- Hoboing across the United States -- A Trans-Pacific Sailor -- Conversion to Buddhism and Ordination -- Four Competing Chronologies -- The United States or Asia? -- Dhammaloka's Political Skills -- A Life among Men? -- Crossing Ethnic Boundaries -- Rejecting Racialization -- 2. The Irish Buddhist Wins Burmese Hearts: 1900-2 -- A Novice at the Tavoy Monastery in Rangoon -- Dhammaloka's Meteoric Rise to Fame -- Preaching Tour Draws Thousands -- The Name "Dhammaloka" -- More Popular than the Viceroy -- Another Triumphal Tour -- Dhammaloka as Phongyi -- A Sudden Departure -- 3. Trampling on Our Religion: 1901 -- A Wonderful Dream and a Secret Document -- Tommy Atkins and the Trustees -- A Brush with an Artist -- No Sole Theory -- 4. Tokyo-An Irish Burmese Monk in Imperial Japan: 1902-3 -- Another World's Parliament of Religions? -- Dhammaloka's Japanese Connections -- Launching an International Buddhist Association -- A "Euro-American Child" -- Return to the Buddhist University -- A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan -- A Transnational Perspective -- 5. Multiplying Buddhist Missions-Singapore, Bangkok, Penang: 1903-5 -- Intrigue with the Saopha: From Singapore to Bangkok. |
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| ISBN: | 0190073101 |