Anti-Catholicism and Protestant Reformism in the History of Western Imagery of the Buddhist Monk: Some Roots of the Modernist Monk
By Laura Harrington
30 pagesThe Buddhist Modernist Monk: a figure now familiar and beloved in American culture as an embodiment of compassion and rationality, yet with a history of prejudice and politics that has yet to be meaningfully explored.
How British and American antagonism to Catholicism shaped the English-speaking world’s engagement with Asia’s Buddhist traditions.