The lotus and the lion
Subtitle: Buddhism and the British Empire
By: J. Jeffrey Franklin.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780801447303
Subjects: Buddhism in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Religion -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The life of the Buddha in Victorian Britain; title: Buddhism and the emergence of late-Victorian hybrid religions; title: Romances of reincarnation, karma, and desire; title: Buddhism and the empire of the self in Kipling's Kim; title: Conclusion : the afterlife of Nirvana; title: Appendix 1 : selective chronology of events in the European encounter with Buddhism; title: Appendix 2 : summary of selected Buddhist tenets.