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Flagging up Buddhism: Charles Pfoundes ( Omoie Tetzunostzuke ) Among the International Congresses and Expositions, 1893–1905 |
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Bocking, Brian
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.14 n.1 |
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| Date | 2013.05 |
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| Pages | 17 - 37 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Japanese Names; Immigrants; Theosophy; Japanese Buddhist Literature; Buddhism; Exposition (Rhetoric) |
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| Abstract | Charles James William Pfoundes (1840–1907), a young emigrant from Southeast Ireland, spent most of his adult life in Japan, received a Japanese name ‘Omoie Tetzunostzuke’, first embraced and then turned against Theosophy and, from 1893, was ordained in several Japanese Buddhist traditions. Lacking independent means but educated, intellectually curious, entrepreneurial, fluent in Japanese and with a keen interest in Asian culture, Pfoundes subsisted as a cultural intermediary, explaining Japan and Asia to both Japanese and foreign audiences and actively seeking involvement in global expositions and congresses, in Asia and beyond. Drawing on a previously unstudied collection of Pfoundes' personal documents, this paper first outlines Pfoundes' unusual career and then focuses on his engagement, in the last 15 years of his life, in actual or proposed international congresses and expositions in London, Chicago, Japan, Hanoi, St Louis and Oregon. The paper thereby draws attention, through the forgotten figure of Charles Pfoundes, to the distinctive nineteenth century phenomenon of great international expositions and their associated congresses, viewing these complicated events as another kind of crossroads; innovative nodes and material stimuli to the kinds of travel, cultural communication and interaction which, like monastic, trade, political and ethnic networks, helped to exchange and promote modern representations of Buddhism. |
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| Table of contents | An outline of Pfoundes’ life 18
Pfoundes among the international expositions and congresses 23
Conclusions 28
Acknowledgements 31
Notes 31
References 35
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2013.785240 |
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| Hits | 278 |
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| Created date | 2013.07.29 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.14 |
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