J. Jeffrey Franklin. The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire
J. Jeffrey Franklin has written a thoroughly researched and fascinating account of the influence of Buddhism mainly on British culture, roughly from 1820 into the early 1900s. There were a wide range of responses from evangelical denunciations to acceptance of Buddhism as superior to the theistic o...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2017
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | J. Jeffrey Franklin has written a thoroughly researched and fascinating account of the influence of Buddhism mainly on British culture, roughly from 1820 into the early 1900s. There were a wide range of responses from evangelical denunciations to acceptance of Buddhism as superior to the theistic orthodoxies of the world. Franklin, himself a Buddhist, considers his study a contribution to comparative religion as well as literary history, and he both analyses and uses as sources studies of Bu... |
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