Alicia Turner, Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious studies, York University Toronto is a Religious Studies scholar specializing in modern Burmese Buddhism, nationalism and secularism.Brian Bocking is Emeritus Professor of the Study of Religions, University College Cork, and previously Professor of the Study of Religions at SOAS, University of London. He has written widely on the academic study of religions and East Asian religions.Laurence Cox is Associate Professor of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, a specialist in social movements and a historian of Buddhism in Europe, especially Ireland.Together with colleagues around the world they have spent the past ten years tracking down Dhammaloka's life. The three authors came together around their fascination with this many-sided Irish Buddhist.

an incredible portrayal not only of a shiny eccentric coalescing the dubious and the remarkable in a Buddhist guise, but of "plebeian cosmopolitan interactions across Asia ... that facilitated both the operation of colonialism and resistance to it." An ingenious book.

• AcknowledgmentsDedicationList of Illustrations Introduction: A Courtroom in RangoonChapter 1: Dhammaloka Before Dhammaloka: Before 1900Chapter 2: The Irish Buddhist Wins Burmese Hearts: 1900-1902 Chapter 3: Trampling on Our Religion: 1901 Chapter 4: Tokyo. An Irish Burmese Monk in Imperial Japan: 1902-3 Chapter 5: Multiplying Buddhist Missions. Singapore, Bangkok, Penang: 1903-1905 Chapter 6: Interlude: Who was the First Western Buddhist Monk? Chapter 7: The Vagabond Journalist's Account: 1905 Chapter 8: A Print Revolution: 1907-1908 Chapter 9: A Controversial Tour of Ceylon: 1909 Chapter 10: Dhammaloka's Last Years and a Mysterious Death: 1909-1912 Epitaph The Irish Buddhist - timeline Glossary Bibliography

Alicia Turner, Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious studies, York University Toronto is a Religious Studies scholar specializing in modern Burmese Buddhism, nationalism and secularism.Brian Bocking is Emeritus Professor of the Study of Religions, University College Cork, and previously Professor of the Study of Religions at SOAS, University of London. He has written widely on the academic study of religions and East Asian religions.Laurence Cox is Associate Professor of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, a specialist in social movements and a historian of Buddhism in Europe, especially Ireland.Together with colleagues around the world they have spent the past ten years tracking down Dhammaloka's life. The three authors came together around their fascination with this many-sided Irish Buddhist.

an incredible portrayal not only of a shiny eccentric coalescing the dubious and the remarkable in a Buddhist guise, but of "plebeian cosmopolitan interactions across Asia ... that facilitated both the operation of colonialism and resistance to it." An ingenious book.

• AcknowledgmentsDedicationList of Illustrations Introduction: A Courtroom in RangoonChapter 1: Dhammaloka Before Dhammaloka: Before 1900Chapter 2: The Irish Buddhist Wins Burmese Hearts: 1900-1902 Chapter 3: Trampling on Our Religion: 1901 Chapter 4: Tokyo. An Irish Burmese Monk in Imperial Japan: 1902-3 Chapter 5: Multiplying Buddhist Missions. Singapore, Bangkok, Penang: 1903-1905 Chapter 6: Interlude: Who was the First Western Buddhist Monk? Chapter 7: The Vagabond Journalist's Account: 1905 Chapter 8: A Print Revolution: 1907-1908 Chapter 9: A Controversial Tour of Ceylon: 1909 Chapter 10: Dhammaloka's Last Years and a Mysterious Death: 1909-1912 Epitaph The Irish Buddhist - timeline Glossary Bibliography

Alicia Turner, Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious studies, York University Toronto is a Religious Studies scholar specializing in modern Burmese Buddhism, nationalism and secularism.Brian Bocking is Emeritus Professor of the Study of Religions, University College Cork, and previously Professor of the Study of Religions at SOAS, University of London. He has written widely on the academic study of religions and East Asian religions.Laurence Cox is Associate Professor of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, a specialist in social movements and a historian of Buddhism in Europe, especially Ireland.Together with colleagues around the world they have spent the past ten years tracking down Dhammaloka's life. The three authors came together around their fascination with this many-sided Irish Buddhist.

an incredible portrayal not only of a shiny eccentric coalescing the dubious and the remarkable in a Buddhist guise, but of "plebeian cosmopolitan interactions across Asia ... that facilitated both the operation of colonialism and resistance to it." An ingenious book.

• AcknowledgmentsDedicationList of Illustrations Introduction: A Courtroom in RangoonChapter 1: Dhammaloka Before Dhammaloka: Before 1900Chapter 2: The Irish Buddhist Wins Burmese Hearts: 1900-1902 Chapter 3: Trampling on Our Religion: 1901 Chapter 4: Tokyo. An Irish Burmese Monk in Imperial Japan: 1902-3 Chapter 5: Multiplying Buddhist Missions. Singapore, Bangkok, Penang: 1903-1905 Chapter 6: Interlude: Who was the First Western Buddhist Monk? Chapter 7: The Vagabond Journalist's Account: 1905 Chapter 8: A Print Revolution: 1907-1908 Chapter 9: A Controversial Tour of Ceylon: 1909 Chapter 10: Dhammaloka's Last Years and a Mysterious Death: 1909-1912 Epitaph The Irish Buddhist - timeline Glossary Bibliography