Cox, Laurence and Ó Laoidh, John (2021) Japanese Buddhism and Ireland. Journal of Religion in Japan, 11 (1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 2211-8330

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Abstract

This article argues that there is no single relationship between Japanese Buddhism and Ireland, but rather a series of changing relationships mediated by different world-system contexts between one island and another (peripheral and post-colonial) one: as ethnographic information, as cultural influence and as religious practice. The process has a long history, stretching back to the Irish reception of Jesuit and traveller’s accounts, and then made concrete by early intermediaries like Lafcadio Hearn / Koizumi Yakumo and Charles Pfoundes. WB Yeats helped to give Japanese Buddhism a significant place in Irish culture, notably in poetry. From the 1960s and 1970s Japanese Buddhists started to settle in Ireland and Japanese Buddhism began to be practiced; both are now an established part of the Irish religious landscape. The article sketches this history together with the present situation of Japanese Buddhism in Ireland.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Japanese Buddhism; western Buddhism; Ireland; religious studies; migration; cultural reception;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	15021
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1163/22118349-01002008
Depositing User:	Dr. Laurence Cox
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2021 11:45
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Religion in Japan
Publisher:	Brill Academic Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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