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.

The City and the Wilderness
The City and the Wilderness

Author: Arash Khazeni

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0520289684

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The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, The City and the Wilderness uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.