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Rethinking Early Western Buddhists: Beachcombers, ‘Going Native’ and Dissident Orientalism |
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Cox, Laurence
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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 | 116 - 133 |
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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 | Study & Teaching of Bilingual Education; Elite (Social Sciences); Buddhism & Culture; Ethnicity |
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| Abstract | Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesting implications in relation to class, ethnicity and politics. ‘Beachcomber Buddhists’ highlight the wider situation of ‘poor whites’ in Asia—needed by empire but prone to defect from elite standards of behaviour designed to maintain imperial and racial power. ‘Going native’, exemplified by the European bhikkhu, highlights the difficulties faced by empire in policing these racial boundaries and the role of Asian agency in early ‘western’ Buddhism. Finally, such ‘dissident Orientalism’ has political implications, as with specifically Irish forms of solidarity with Asian anti-colonial movements. Within the limits imposed by the data, this article rethinks ‘early western Buddhism’ in Asia as a creative response to colonialism, shaped by Asian actors, marked by cross-racial solidarity and oriented to alternative possible futures beyond empire. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 116
Phr’a Kow-Tow and Marco Polo 116
U Dhammaloka: a window into wider worlds 117
‘Pauper lunatics and beachcombers’ 118
The many-headed hydra 120
One migrant worker’s trajectory 120
Loafers and bhikkhus 122
‘Going native’, race, and Asian agency 123
European bhikkhus and colour lines 125
Asian agency and Buddhist revival 126
Dissident Orientalisms and Irish identifications 127
As in Ireland, so in Asia? 128
Some early Irish Buddhist strategies 129
Conclusion: early western Buddhists and the limits of empire 129
Acknowledgements 131
Notes 131
References 131
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2013.785242 |
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| Hits | 183 |
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| Created date | 2013.07.29 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.14 |
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