1st Edition
Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization in Buddhism The United States and the Asian "Other", 1899–1957
By Ryan Anningson
Copyright 2021
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes Buddhist discussions of the Aryan myth and scientific racism and the ways in which this conversation reshaped Buddhism in the United States, and globally.
The book traces the development of notions of Aryanism in Buddhism through Buddhist publications from 1899-1957, focusing on this so-called "yellow peril," or historical racist views in the United States of an Asian... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Search for Aryan Statues
Chapter 2 – Racecraft in America
Chapter 3 – Academia and Aryan Ideology
Chapter 4 – Bioracism Across Asia
Chapter 5 – Aryan Buddhism as Humanity’s Foundation
Chapter 6 – The Shin Boom and Zen Aryanism
Chapter 7 – Metaphysical Buddhism and the Religion of Joy
Chapter 8 – Buddhism and the Evolution of Racecraft
Chapter 9 – An Aryan Buddhist Utopia
Conclusion
Biography
Ryan Anningson is Flora Jane Baker Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
