Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan : Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies - Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya

Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan

Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies

By: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya (Editor), Togawa Masahiko (Editor)

Hardcover | 14 February 2025

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This book examines the role of Buddhism in Indiaâ"Japan relations through three approaches.

 First, it studies the history of interactions between India and Japan, especially through Buddhist pilgrimages from Japan to India and how it has influenced both Japanese and Indian Buddhism, particularly the Buddhist revival movements and the development of Buddhist sacred sites, such as Bodhgaya, in India. Second, it analyses the ideological implications of these Buddhist interactions between Japan and India by focusing on the role of Japanese monks and scholars as agents of Buddhist encounters between the two countries, and their contribution towards Buddhist scholarship in Japan, and the development of ideologies such as Buddhist nationalism or Pan-Asianism in India, Japan as well as in other Asian countries. Finally, it highlights how these historic Buddhist linkages between India and Japan has led to transnational collaborations between Buddhists / Buddhist organizations as well as the governments of the two countries, and the use of Buddhist heritage as a soft power in the diplomatic relations between India and Japan.

Drawing on inter-disciplinary studies, the essays in the volume will be of interest to scholars in history, heritage studies, religious studies, especially Buddhist studies, international relations, and Asian studies.

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