Romantic dharma
Subtitle: the emergence of Buddhism into nineteenth-century Europe
By: Mark S. Lussier
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780230105454
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Intellectual life; Buddhist influences; History and criticism; Influence; Romanticism; European literature; Sources; Buddhism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "Romantic Dharma maps the  emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the 19th  century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways  by which those insights  translate into contemporary critical and pedagogical practices.  This book maps the movement of  European colonial institutions and individuals across the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal and Tibet and the  reverse flow of textual materials to the primary sites for Oriental Studies in India and Europe.  These emergent texts illustrate the  compatible view of the human condition  in both European and Oriental bodies of thought and identifies shared strategies for alleviating the  suffering of all sentient beings.  Romantic Dharma reveals  an "engaged Romanticism" relevant  to scholars and teachers. The text, therefore, has a trajectory that extends from historical encounters through textual intersections to current concerns"--

"Romantic Dharma maps the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the nineteenth century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into contemporary critical and pedagogical practices"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: "The Most Sublime Act" * Buddhism and Romanticism * The Strange Case of Alexander Csoma de Körös * Romanticism's Four Noble Truths * Inner Revolutions: Self-Annihilation in Blake and Shelley * The Romantic Book of the Dead.