Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Life of the Buddha in Victorian Britain -- Buddhism and the Emergence of Late-Victorian Hybrid Religions -- Romances of Reincarnation, Karma, and Desire -- Buddhism and the Empire of the Self in Kipling's Kim…
"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 …
"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 …