Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, Brian BockingPublish date:2020-05-20Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190073084ISBN-10:019007308XUPC:9780190073084Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ReligionBook Subcategory:Buddhism, HistoryBook Topic:HistorySize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCPCPV5DG1
Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire
The Irish Buddhist is the biography of an extraordinary Irish emigrant, sailor, and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century Asia. Born in Dublin in the 1850s, U Dhammaloka energetically challenged the values and power of the British Empire and scandalized the colonial establishment of the 1900s. He rallied Buddhists across Asia, set up...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190073084ISBN-10:019007308XUPC:9780190073084Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ReligionBook Subcategory:Buddhism, HistoryBook Topic:HistorySize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCPCPV5DG1
Alicia Turner, Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies, York University, Toronto; Laurence Cox, Associate Professor of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth; Brian Bocking, Professor Emeritus of the Study of Religions, University College Cork; The three authors came together around their fascination with this many-sided Irish Buddhist. Alicia Turner, Associate...
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