Seeking sakyamuni South Asia in the formation of modern Japanese Buddhism

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: locating Tenjiku -- South Asian encounters: Kitabatake Dōryō, Shaku Kōzen, Shaku Sōen, and the first generation of Japanese Buddhists in South Asia -- Kawaguchi Ekai, globalization, and the promotion of lay Buddhism in Japan -- Following the cotton road: Japanese corporate pilgrimage to India, 1926-1927 -- Buddhist material culture, "Indianism," and the construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in twentieth-century Japan -- Global waves on Ōmura bay: the English translation of the Gedatsu dōron (the path of freedom) -- Deploying South Asian Buddhism.