Judith Snodgrass
1) Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Japanese Buddhism was introduced to a wide Western audience when a delegation of Buddhist priests attended the World's Parliament of Religions, part of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In describing and analyzing this event, Judith Snodgrass challenges the predominant view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood strictly through Western ideas. Restoring agency to the Buddhists themselves, she shows how they...