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Travels of the Jesuits (Title Page).JPG
A translation of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, a collection of the narratives of the 16th and 17th-century Jesuit missionaries. Travelling across much of Buddhist Asia (including Vietnam, Japan, China and Tibet), these missionaries were noted for…

Travels of the Jesuits (Nangasak map).JPG
A translation of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, a collection of the narratives of the 16th and 17th-century Jesuit missionaries. Travelling across much of Buddhist Asia (including Vietnam, Japan, China and Tibet), these missionaries were noted for…

Travels of the Jesuits (Callan signature).JPG
A translation of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, a collection of the narratives of the 16th and 17th-century Jesuit missionaries. Travelling across much of Buddhist Asia (including Vietnam, Japan, China and Tibet), these missionaries were noted for…

The Chief Lama or High Priest.JPG
The 1924 Mallory / Irvine expedition to Everest was largely financed by John Noel’s silent film Epic of Everest. Screenings were preceded by musical and dance performances from six “dancing lamas” (in fact one lama and five monks) who had been…

Sanatogen.JPG
This 1920 newspaper advertisement is perhaps one of the first appearances of ‘Buddha’ as a generic authority for gnomic feel-good statements aimed at a consumer market.

Freeman's Journal.JPG
According to the results of the Census of Ireland, 1871, Buddhism was one of ‘motley beliefs’ submitted under denominations.
“Among the motley beliefs comprised under “all
other denominations,” we find represented such creeds as Buddhism,…

A Contrast.JPG
This extract from the Freeman’s Journal, December 1878, reports on the religion of the Burmese people “which has often been observed in its external aspect to bear a striking resemblance to primitive Christianity”.

Annales Minorum (Luke Wadding).JPG
Working in Rome, the Irish Franciscan historian Luke Wadding included the story of Odoric of Pordenone in this history of the Order. Odoric travelled to Sri Lanka, China and perhaps Tibet in the early 14th century with “Brother James of Ireland”.…

JPII Encountering Buddhist Asia 002.JPG
The Far East (July 1931). The Far East was the publication of the Maynooth Mission to China (initiated 1916). Unlike their Jesuit predecessors, the Columban missionaries were not trained in languages or
culture and tended to see Buddhism and other…

Ancient Accounts of India and China (title page).JPG
In the European Enlightenment, sympathetic accounts of Chinese culture by Jesuit missionaries and others were often used to highlight the possibility of a secular and non-European civilization. Renaudot’s translation of Arabic texts - based on the…
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