The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced down the British Empire

Alicia Turner, The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced down the British Empire, with Brian Bocking and Laurence Cox (Oxford UP, 2020)

The Irish Buddhist tells the story of a poor Irishman who worked his way across America as a migrant worker, became one of the very first Western Buddhist monks, and traveled the length and breadth of Asia, from Burma and present-day Thailand to China and Japan, and from India and Sri Lanka to Singapore and Australia. Defying racial boundaries, he scandalized the colonial establishment of the 1900s. As a Buddhist monk, he energetically challenged the values and power of the British empire.

 

 

Year of Publication: 2020
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