A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860-1960 - Hardcover
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Modern Buddhism as we know it was largely invented in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the encounter between transnational Asian networks and western pioneers. This book explores some of the remarkable lives, cross-cultural exchanges and transformations of Buddhism in this formative period.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.
Brian Bocking is Professor of the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland, and formerly Chair of the Study of Religions Dept. at SOAS, University of London. He has published mainly in the field of Japanese religions and is currently researching early Irish Buddhists.
Phibul Choompolpaisal is Research Associate in Thai Meditation Texts at King's College London, UK. He is author of several articles on Thai Buddhism in the early modern period.
Laurence Cox is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland. He is author of Buddhism and Ireland (2013) and has published widely on social movements. He is currently with Brian Bocking and Alicia Turner on the strange lives of U Dhammaloka and Capt. Charles Pfoundes.
Alicia Turner is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Humanities department of York University in Toronto. She is the author of Saving Buddhism: Moral Community and the Impermanence of Colonial Religion (forthcoming) and editor of The Journal of Burma Studies.
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