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Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction: Narratives in Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan 1
RANJANA MUKHOPADHYAYA
Introduction: Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies 35
TOGAWA MASAHIKO
1 Bodhisena and the Consecration of the Great Buddha: “India” in the History of Japanese Culture 49
KOJIMA YASUKO
2 Longing for India: Japanese Buddhists and India 68
MINOWA KENRYO
3 Following the Footsteps of Shakyamuni: Nanjō Bun’yū’s Journey to India 83
PARIDE STORTINI
4 A Trajectory of the Literary Work by Kimura Nichiki: Indo-Japanese Relationship in 20th Century Bengal 102
SUMIT KUMAR BARUA
5 From Bongaku (梵学) to Indo Tetsugaku (印度哲学): Indology at Japanese Public Universities from the Meiji to the Taishō Eras 131
THOMAS NEWHALL
6 Shaku Kōzen and Japanese Buddhists in the Revival of the Bodh Gaya Temple 144
NAOJI OKUYAMA
7 The Bodh Gaya Restoration Movement of Anagarika Dharmapala and the Japanese Buddhists 167
TOGAWA MASAHIKO
8 Ōtani Kōzui and India: Seeking the Origin of the Eastward Spread of Buddhism 187
NOHNIN MASAAKI
9 Japanese Engagement with Tibetan and Indian Buddhism: Kawaguchi Ekai 201
M N RAJESH
10 The Prajna Paramita Conference Revisited: Japan–India Cultural Interactions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 214
OKAMOTO YOSHIKO
11 “Proselytizing in the Western Paradise”: India in the Making of Fujii Nichidatsu and Nipponzan Myōhōji 235
RANJANA MUKHOPADHYAYA
12 The Monks Between Japan and India: Buddhist Conversion Movements in India and the Buddhists of Japan 258
FUNAHASHI KENTA
13 “The Road by Which Buddhism Came”: Buddhist Diplomacy of Japan, India, and China 273
YUSUKE BESSHO
Index 297
Biography
Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya is a Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Delhi. She holds a doctoral degree in Religious Studies from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She previously taught at the Nagoya City University and was Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto. She specializes in Japanese Buddhism. Her research includes the study of Engaged Buddhist movements in Japan, Buddhist diplomacy, New Religious Movements and transnational intellectual and artistic exchanges between India and Japan.
Togawa Masahiko is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of South Asia, and Comparative Studies of Religion at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). He graduated from Keio University, Japan, and studied at Calcutta University, North Bengal University, and Visva-Bharati University in India from 1992 to 1997, conducting anthropological fieldwork in a village society in Bengal, and studies intellectual exchanges between Japan and India such as Okakura Kakuzo with Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore during the British period.
