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Mahāyāna Phoenix

Japan’s Buddhists at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions

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John Harding

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American University Studies:

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The remarkable group of Japanese Buddhists who traveled to Chicago’s Columbian Exposition to participate in the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions combined religious aspirations with nationalist ambitions. Their portrayal of Buddhism mirrored modern reforms in Meiji, Japan, and the historical context of cultural competition on display at the 1893 World’s Fair. Japan’s primary exhibit, the Hō-ō, or phoenix, Pavilion, provided an impressive display of traditional culture as well as apt symbolism: for Japan’s modern rise to prominence, for Buddhist renewal succeeding devastating Meiji persecution, for Mahāyāna revitalization following withering attacks of Western critics, and for Chicago’s own resurrection from the ashes of the Great Fire. This book examines the Japanese delegates’ portrayal of Mahāyāna Buddhism as authentically ancient, pragmatically modern, scientifically consistent, and universally salvific. The Japanese delegates were active, and relatively successful agents who seized the opportunity of the 1893 forum to further their own objectives of promoting Japan and its Buddhism to the West, repairing negative evaluations of the «great vehicle» of Buddhism, differentiating Japanese Buddhism from the Buddhism of other countries, distinguishing their tradition as the evolutionary culmination of all religions, and shaping modern Buddhism in Asia and the West.

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The Author: John S. Harding received his B.A. in Asian studies with a minor in religion from the University of Puget Sound and then pursued his graduate work in religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia along with research in Japan and one year at the University of Cambridge in England. Harding received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 shortly before joining the Religious Studies Department at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. He is the co-author of Introduction to Religious Studies and co-editor of Wild Geese: Studies of Buddhism in Canada (both forthcoming).

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February 5th, 2008

Author

John Harding

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Pages

154

Series

American University Studies:

ISBN-13

9781433101403

Product ID

7475440

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