Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan: Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist...

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Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya Togawa Masahiko

Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan

Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies

Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, Togawa Masahiko

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Routledge India
05 November 2024

Social & cultural history; Buddhist life & practice; Diplomacy

This book examines the role of Buddhism in India–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.

Edited by: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, Togawa Masahiko
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032233802
ISBN 10: 103223380X
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 05 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya is Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Delhi. She holds a doctoral degree in Religious Studies from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She previously worked as an Associate Professor at the Nagoya City University and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto. Togawa Masahiko is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of South Asia, and Comparative Studies of Religion at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). He graduated from Keio University, Japan, and studied at Calcutta University, North Bengal University, and Visva-Bharati University in India from 1992-1997, conducting live-in fieldwork within a village in Bengal, and compiled an ethnography on ritual practices and inter-caste relations.