Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan

Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya is Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Delhi. She holds a doctoral degree in Religious Studies from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She previously worked as an Associate Professor at the Nagoya City University and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto. Togawa Masahiko is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of South Asia, and Comparative Studies of Religion at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). He graduated from Keio University, Japan, and studied at Calcutta University, North Bengal University, and Visva-Bharati University in India from 1992-1997, conducting live-in fieldwork within a village in Bengal, and compiled an ethnography on ritual practices and inter-caste relations.

Introduction: Narratives in Buddhist Exchanges between India and Japan. Introduction: Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies. 1. Bodhisena and the Consecration of the Great Buddha: “India” in the History of Japanese Culture 2. Longing for India: Japanese Buddhists and India 3. Following the Footsteps of Shakyamuni: Nanjō Bun’yū’s Journey to India 4. A Trajectory of the Literary Work by Kimura Nichiki: Indo-Japanese Relationship in 20th Century Bengal 5. From Bongaku (梵学) to Indo Tetsugaku (印度哲学): Indology at Japanese Public Universities from the Meiji to the Taishō Eras 6. Shaku Kōzen and Japanese Buddhists in the Revival of the Bodh Gaya Templen 7. The Bodh Gaya Restoration Movement by Anagarika Dharmapala and the Japanese Buddhists 8. Ōtani Kozui and India: Seeking the Origin of the Eastward Spread of Buddhism 9. Japanese Engagement with Tibetan and Indian Buddhism: Kawaguchi Ekai 10. The Prajna Paramita Conference Revisited: Japan–India Cultural Interactions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 11. “Proselytizing in the “Western Paradise”: India in the making of Fuji Nichidatsu and Nipponzan Myohoji 12. The Monks Between Japan and India: Buddhist Conversion Movements in India and the Buddhists of Japan 13. “The Road by Which Buddhism Came”: Buddhist Diplomacy of Japan, India and China