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020			_a978-81-215-1206-0 _cRs 975.00
040			_aRBU-Library
041			_aEnglish
082			_a820.9382943 _bF828
100			_aFranklin, Jeffery J
245			_aThe Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire.
260			_aNew Delhi: _bCornel University Press, _c2008.
300			_a273p.
500			_aIncludes bibliography, notes, appendix and index.
502			_a "In The Lotus and the Lion, J. Jeffrey Franklin traces the historical and cultural origins of Western Buddhism, showing that the British Empire was a primary engine for curiosity about and then engagement with the Buddhisms that the British encountered in India and elsewhere in Asia." "In this book, Franklin analyzes responses to and constructions of Buddhism by popular novelists and poets, early scholars of religion, inventors of new religions, social theorists and philosophers, and a host of social and religious commentators. Examining the work of numerous figures, Franklin provides insight into cultural upheavals that continue to reverberate into our own time. The Lotus and the Lion demonstrates that the nineteenth-century encounter with Buddhism subtly but profoundly changed Western civilization forever
650			_aCommonwealth _aBuddhisim in literature _aEnglish literature of nineteenth century
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