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  Inoue Enryo - Encyclopedia.com
Therefore, the early- and mid-Meiji years witnessed a variety of individuals--from Edward Morse to Inoue Enryo to Miyake Setsurei--who struggled to explore, discover, write and create a past that was usable for a self-consciously
Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan.
Inoue Enryo, on the other hand, attempted to find rational explanations
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-368006.html   (296 words)

  
  Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition, by Judith ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Inoue's study of contemporary Western thought convinced him that the truth contained in Japanese Buddhism was the culmination of Western intellectual evolution.
To achieve this Inoue needed to enlist the support of "young men of talent and education" (his expression), the Western-educated elite of Japan, and this required that the Japanese Buddhism he offered was acceptable in terms of the dominant rational criteria of the time.
Inoue wrote that he had gone to the West to find the truth, but that having found it there he then recognized that it had existed in the East for three thousand years.
uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/snodgrass_presenting.html   (4555 words)

  
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The 1880s saw the birth of Japan as a modern state; a reaction set in against the initial Westernization, and a need was felt for a national identity, defined on a cultural as well as on a political level.
The Buddhist intellectual who was representative of this period was Inoue EnryƓ, and the core of Buddhist activism was a continuous attack on Christianity, as representing the West in religious terms.
Inoue felt that a revitalized Buddhism could become a doctrine fit for the modern age, and constitute a system of thought representative of Japan also in nationalistic terms.
www.asjapan.org /Lectures/2003/Lecture/lecture-2003-04.htm   (1327 words)

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