Introduction A Buddhist crossroads: pioneer European Buddhists and globalizing Asian networks 1860–1960 1-16
Original Articles Flagging up Buddhism: Charles Pfoundes (Omoie Tetzunostzuke) among the international congresses and expositions, 1893–1905 17-37 Buddhist Councils in a Time of Transition: Globalism, Modernity and the Preservation of Textual Traditions 38-51 Three Boys on a Great Vehicle: ‘Mahayana Buddhism’ and a Trans-National Network 52-65 The Bible, The Bottle And The Knife: Religion as a Mode of Resisting Colonialism for U Dhammaloka 66-77 Ananda Metteyya: Controversial Networker, Passionate Critic 78-93 Tai-Burmese-Lao Buddhisms in the ‘Modernizing’ of Ban Thawai (Bangkok): The Dynamic Interaction Between Ethnic Minority Religion and British–Siamese Centralization in the Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Centuries 94-115 Rethinking Early Western Buddhists: Beachcombers, ‘Going Native’ and Dissident Orientalism 116-133 ‘Like Embers Hidden in Ashes, or Jewels Encrusted In Stone’: Rāhul Sāṅk tyāyan, Dharmānand KosambĪ And Buddhist Activity In Colonial India 134-148 Elective Affinities: The Reconstruction of A Forgotten Episode in the shared history of Thai and British Buddhism – Kapilavaḍḍho and Wat Paknam 149-168 Brooklyn Bhikkhu: How Salvatore Cioffi Became The Venerable Lokanatha 169-186