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Cover illustration: The Japanese scholar-priests Nanjō Bun’yū (left) and Kasahara Kenju (right) and the German orientalist Friedrich Max Müller (center), in Oxford, ca. 1880. Illustration from the frontispiece of Nanjō Bun’yū jijo den (Kyoto, 1924).
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Names: Licha, Stephan Kigensan, editor. | Krämer, Hans Martin, editor.
Title: Learning from the West, learning from the East : the emergence of the study of Buddhism in Japan and Europe before 1900 / edited by Stephan Kigensan Licha, Hans Martin Krämer.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2023. | Series: Studies on East Asian religions, 2452-0098 ; 9 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023026765 (print) | LCCN 2023026766 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004679542 (cloth) | ISBN 9789004681071 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Buddhism–Study and teaching–Japan–History. | Buddhism–Study and teaching–Europe–History.
Classification: LCC BQ693 .L43 2023 (print) | LCC BQ693 (ebook) | DDC 294.307/10952–dc23/eng/20230712
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