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Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Mark Lussier.

Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Mark Lussier. BOOK REVIEWS 241 This book is an excellent example of literature and religion living in final harmony in the coincidence of opposites. I am grateful for it. doi:10.1093/litthe/frt018 DAVID JASPER Advance Access publication 2 May 2013 University of Glasgow Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Mark Lussier. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington VT: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.xx+ 231pp. Cloth, $85.00 Mark Lussier’s Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe posits a relationship between Romantic modes of illumination and Buddhist ones. The book finds these parallels chiefly in Blake and also in Mary and Percy Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth. For the author, Romantic writers’ ideals of egoless- ness, self-emptying, and fluid identity are temptingly analogous to the beliefs of Mahayana Buddhism. While admitting there was little actual knowledge of Buddhism in the Romantic era, the book insists on the value of reading Romantic writers with Buddhist beliefs in mind. Lussier is right to argue that Buddhism appealed to many intellectuals in the 19th century. Jeff Franklin has made a similar argument for later in the century in his The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire (2009). Buddhism appealed to the ‘enlightenment-oriented colonial mind’ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Literature and Theology Oxford University Press

Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Mark Lussier.

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Literature and Theology , Volume 28 (2) – Jun 23, 2014
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BOOK REVIEWS 241 This book is an excellent example of literature and religion living in final harmony in the coincidence of opposites. I am grateful for it. doi:10.1093/litthe/frt018 DAVID JASPER Advance Access publication 2 May 2013 University of Glasgow Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Mark Lussier. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington VT: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.xx+ 231pp. Cloth, $85.00 Mark Lussier’s Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe posits a relationship between Romantic modes of illumination and Buddhist ones. The book finds these parallels chiefly in Blake and also in Mary and Percy Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth. For the author, Romantic writers’ ideals of egoless- ness, self-emptying, and fluid identity are temptingly analogous to the beliefs of Mahayana Buddhism. While admitting there was little actual knowledge of Buddhism in the Romantic era, the book insists on the value of reading Romantic writers with Buddhist beliefs in mind. Lussier is right to argue that Buddhism appealed to many intellectuals in the 19th century. Jeff Franklin has made a similar argument for later in the century in his The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire (2009). Buddhism appealed to the ‘enlightenment-oriented colonial mind’

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