The American Encounter with Buddhism: 1844-1912, Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent.

The Historian | June 22, 1993| | Copyright

Americans' reports of their encounters with Buddhism in the nineteenth century - like Thomas A. Tweed's excellent study on the subject - tell modern readers much more about American culture than about Buddhism. Tweed explores various Western conversations about Buddhism between 1844 - when Eugene Burnouf's L'Introduction a l'histoire du buddhisme indien appeared in the United States - and 1912, a year that, for the author, marks the unraveling of Victorianism as a coherent culture. He argues that Americans were attracted to Buddhism for a variety of reasons, but after 1879, a ...

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