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rescued from the nation buddhism and modernity A series edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr. Recent Books in the Series Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler by Gendun Chopel, translated by Thupten Jinpa and Donald S. Lopez Jr. (2014) Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism by Anya Bernstein (2013) The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw by Erik Braun (2013) From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha by Donald S. Lopez Jr. (2013) The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet by Clare E. Harris (2012) rescued from the nation Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World steven kemper the university of chicago press chicago and london steven kemper is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology at Bates College and the author of The Presence of the Past and Buying and Believing, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2015 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2015. Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5 isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 19907- 8 (cloth) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 19910- 8 (e- book) doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226199108.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging- in-P ublication Data Kemper, Steven, 1944– author. Rescued from the nation : Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist world / Steven Kemper. pages cm — (Buddhism and modernity) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978- 0- 226- 19907- 8 (cloth : alkaline paper) — isbn 0- 226- 19907- X (cloth : alkaline paper) — isbn 978- 0- 226- 19910- 8 (e- book) — isbn 0- 226- 19910- X (e- book) 1. Dharmapala, Anagarika, 1864–1933. 2. Buddhist monks—Sri Lanka—Biography. I. Title. II. Series: Buddhism and modernity. bq950.h37k46 2015 294.3092—dc23 [B] 2014028190 o This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). For Anne, Jordan and Baylor, Miles and Max, Shannon and Scott, and Jessica and Inacio contents Preface ix Introduction: World Renunciation in a Nineteenth- Century World 1 1. Dharmapala as Theosophist 52 2. Buddhists in Japan 116 3. Universalists Abroad 186 4. Dharmapala, the British, and the Bengalis 241 5. Dharmapala and the British Empire 304 6. World Wanderer Returns Home 376 Afterword 423 Appendix 1. The Diaries and Notebooks Explained 439 Appendix 2. A Chronology of the Life of Anagarika Dharmapala 447 Bibliography 473 Index 487 vii preface Ia m indebted to many people, but I want to acknowledge an institution straightaway. I can say it simply. Bates College has made my scholarly life possible. I am appreciative of the endless forms that support has taken. I also owe thanks for the support of the Dana Foundation and the Freeman Foundation, which made several of my research trips to South Asia, Japan, and London possible. Several decades ago I played a small part in hiring John Strong at Bates. My support was not meant to be self-s erving, but there is a lot to be said for having a Buddhologist among Buddhologists at arm’s reach, willing to hear my questions and investigate. His responses did a lot more than provide an- swers. They educated me. I have also been the beneficiary of the kindness of Dennis McGilvray, John Rogers, Frank Reynolds, Richard Jaffe, Danny Danforth, Michael Aung- Thwin, Val Daniel, and Ian Copeland, who read the manuscript and tried to steer me right. Anne Blackburn, Sarah Strong, Gananath Obeyesekere, H. L. Seneviratne, Prasenajit Duara, and Alan Trevithick gave me invaluable advice along the way. Alan made me aware of notebooks residing at the Dharmapala library in Sarnath, and that was no small gift. In Tokyo Yuko Eguchi guided me through the Diet Library and Gakushuin University. Her translations of Japanese texts give the impression that I know more of Japan than I do, and I appreciate both the illusion making and the great kindness she and her family showed me in both Japan and this country. Soon after I arrived, Ishii Kosei took me out to dinner, shared his knowledge of Dharma- pala, and then out of the blue gave me photocopies of Japanese sources on Dharmapala. Another gift I did not deserve. After I finished the manuscript, I came across two articles on Dharma- pala and found the authors, Michael Roberts and Stephen Prothero, saying ix
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