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Mahāyāna Phoenix
John S. Harding
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Japan's Buddhists at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
出版Peter Lang, 2008
主題Foreign Language Study / MiscellaneousHistory / GeneralHistory / Asia / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Social HistoryLiterary Criticism / GeneralReligion / Buddhism / GeneralReligion / Comparative ReligionReligion / ConfucianismReligion / Eastern
ISBN14331014089781433101403
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NrHQgFHMukYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The remarkable group of Japanese Buddhists who traveled to Chicago's Columbian Exposition to participate in the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions combined religious aspirations with nationalist ambitions. Their portrayal of Buddhism mirrored modern reforms in Meiji, Japan, and the historical context of cultural competition on display at the 1893 World's Fair. Japan's primary exhibit, the Hō-ō, or phoenix, Pavilion, provided an impressive display of traditional culture as well as apt symbolism: for Japan's modern rise to prominence, for Buddhist renewal succeeding devastating Meiji persecution, for Mahāyāna revitalization following withering attacks of Western critics, and for Chicago's own resurrection from the ashes of the Great Fire. This book examines the Japanese delegates' portrayal of Mahāyāna Buddhism as authentically ancient, pragmatically modern, scientifically consistent, and universally salvific. The Japanese delegates were active, and relatively successful agents who seized the opportunity of the 1893 forum to further their own objectives of promoting Japan and its Buddhism to the West, repairing negative evaluations of the «great vehicle» of Buddhism, differentiating Japanese Buddhism from the Buddhism of other countries, distinguishing their tradition as the evolutionary culmination of all religions, and shaping modern Buddhism in Asia and the West.