Therava¯da Buddhism and the British Encounter : Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth-century Sri Lanka

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ISBN: 9780203098776 | 0203098773
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Copyright: 1/26/2005

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

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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
Balancing the Exoteric and the Esoteric: Theosophists in Sri Lanka
Convert to Compassion
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
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