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Rescued from the nation : Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist world / Steven Kemper.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Buddhism and modernityPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780226199108
  • 022619910X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rescued from the nationDDC classification:
  • 294.3092 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ950.H37 K46 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.93
  • 15.75
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Contents:
Dharmapala as theosophist -- Buddhists in Japan -- Universalists abroad -- Dharmapala, the British, and the Bengalis -- Dharmapala and the British Empire -- World wanderer returns home.
Summary: Dharmapala is a galvanizing figure in Sri Lanka's recent history, 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 he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, dealing with other concerns. Steven Kemper re-evaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings that paint a picture not of a nationalist zealot but of a spiritual seeker earnest in his pursuit of salvation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dharmapala as theosophist -- Buddhists in Japan -- Universalists abroad -- Dharmapala, the British, and the Bengalis -- Dharmapala and the British Empire -- World wanderer returns home.

Print version record.

Dharmapala is a galvanizing figure in Sri Lanka's recent history, 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 he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, dealing with other concerns. Steven Kemper re-evaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings that paint a picture not of a nationalist zealot but of a spiritual seeker earnest in his pursuit of salvation.