Buddhism and Modernity : : Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan / / ed. by Orion Klautau, Hans Martin Krämer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Auerback, Micah,; Baskind, James,; Chigaku, Tanaka,; Dōjin, Kiyū,; Ekai, Kawaguchi,; Enryō, Inoue,; Gallant, Nathaniel,; Genjō, Yamagata,; Godart, G. Clinton,; Gyōkai, Fukuda,; Hoshino, Seiji,; Iwata, Mami,; Jigensha, Kyōkai,; Jōkan, Chikazumi,; Kaiseki, Sada,; Kameyama, Mitsuhiro,; Klautau, Orion,; Krämer, Hans Martin,; Kōchō, Ogurusu,; Licha, Stephan Kigensan,; Mohr, Michel,; Mokurai, Shimaji,; Rambelli, Fabio,; Ryūon, Higuchi,; Schicketanz, Erik,; Schroeder, Jeff,; Seiran, Ōuchi,; Senshō, Murakami,; Shields, James Mark,; Stone, Jacqueline I.,; Storm, Jason Ananda Josephson,; Sōen, Shaku,; Taidō, Ogawa,; Tanzan, Hara,; Thomas, Jolyon Baraka,; Toda, Dylan,; Unshō, Shaku,; Ushirō, Nakanishi,; Ward, Ryan,; Washington, Garrett L.,; Zasshi, Hanseikai,
• HerausgeberIn: Klautau, Orion,; Krämer, Hans Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Japan was the first Asian nation to face the full impact of modernity. Like the rest of Japanese society, Buddhist institutions, individuals, and thought were drawn into the dynamics of confronting the modern age. Japanese Buddhism had to face multiple challenges, but it also contributed to modern Japanese society in numerous ways. Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan makes accessible the voices of Japanese Buddhists during the early phase of high modernity.The volume offers original translations of key texts—many available for the first time in English—by central actors in Japan’s transition to the modern era, including the works of Inoue Enryō, Gesshō, Hara Tanzan, Shimaji Mokurai, Kiyozawa Manshi, Murakami Senshō, Tanaka Chigaku, and Shaku Sōen. All of these writers are well recognized by Buddhist studies scholars and Japanese historians but have drawn little attention elsewhere; this stands in marked contrast to the reception of Japanese Buddhism since D. T. Suzuki, the towering figure of Japanese Zen in the first half of the twentieth century. The present book fills the chronological gap between the premodern era and the twentieth century by focusing on the crucial transition period of the nineteenth century.Issues central to the interaction of Japanese Buddhism with modernity inform the five major parts of the work: sectarian reform, the nation, science and philosophy, social reform, and Japan and Asia. Throughout the chapters, the globally entangled dimension—both in relation to the West, especially the direct and indirect impact of Christianity, and to Buddhist Asia—is of great importance. The Introduction emphasizes not only how Japanese Buddhism was part of a broader, globally shared reaction of religions to the specific challenges of modernity, but also goes into great detail in laying out the specifics of the Japanese case.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Buddhism and Modernity in Japan An Introduction -- Part I Sectarian Reform -- Chapter 1 Questions and Answers from Beneath a Snowy Window (1876) -- Chapter 2 On Religious Revolution (1889) -- Chapter 3 “Fraternity of Puritan Buddhists: Our Manifesto” (1900) -- Capter 4 “Discussing the Kanrenkai” (1897) -- Part II The Nation -- Chapter 1 On Protecting the Nation through Buddhism (1856) -- Chapter 2 “Upholding Faith in the Buddhadharma and Repaying the Nation” (1863) -- Chapter 3 “Lectures on the Three Articles of Instruction” (1873) -- Chapter 4 Laughing at Christianity (1869) -- Chapter 5 On the National Doctrine of Greater Japan (1882) -- Part III Science and Philosophy -- Chapter 1 A Buddhist Book of Genesis (1879) -- Chapter 2 “The Gist of Indian Philosophy” (1887) -- Chapter 3 Prolegomena to an Argument for the Revival of Buddhism (1887) -- Chapter 4 Discourse on Buddhist Unity (1901) -- Part IV Social Reform -- Chapter 1 “On Civilization” (1876) -- Chapter 2 “Publishing Goals of Hanseikai zasshi ” (1887) and “Living the Pure Life” (1887) -- Chapter 3 “On the Relationship Between Man and Woman” (1888) -- Chapter 4 On Buddhist Marriage (1894) -- Chapter 5 The Problem of Faith (1904) -- Part V Japan and Asia -- Chapter 1 “A Plan to Protect the Dharma” (1874/1903) -- Chapter 2 “A Record of Niuzhuang” (1895) -- Chapter 3 “The Japanese People’s Spirit” (1912) -- Chapter 4 A Travelogue in Tibet (1904) -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index