Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West

Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West

Author: Judith Snodgrass

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780807854587

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Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.