Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka

Name: Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka
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ISBN: 9780415371254

ISBN-10: 0415371252

ISBN-13: 9780415371254

Edition: 2006

Authors: Elizabeth Harris

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This work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in 19th century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travelers, and religious seekers who first encountered it.

Book details

List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 274
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.53" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Introduction



1796-1830



Introduction



The early British visitors: mapping the ground



1830-1870



Introduction



The arrogance of power: the memoir writers



Christian exclusivism: the Protestant missionaries and their friends



Missionary scholars: Daniel Gogerly and Robert Spence Hardy



Buddhism's glorious core: Turnour's allies



1870-1900



Introduction



The Buddha as hero: Arnold's The Light of Asia



Buddhism as nihilism: the missionary perspective



Romantic other, negative spin: Constance Gordon Cumming



Buddhism as life-affirming: contesting the missionaries



Contrasting scholars: R.S. Copleston and T.W. Rhys Davids



Balancing the exoteric and the esoteric: theosophists in Sri Lanka



Convert to compassion: Allan Bennett



Remodelling Buddhist belief and practice: the dynamics of Protestant Buddhism



The British as witnesses to the tradition: continuity and ruption



The roots of Buddhist modernism



One tradition, differing voices



Threat to the Dhamma, a Dhamma renewed



Discourses of contempt: the encounter between Buddhists and Christian missionaries



Co-existence and dual belonging



World views in collision



Betrayal and retaliation



The twentieth century


Epilogue


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index