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  1. Rethinking Early Western Buddhists: Beachcombers, ‘Going Native’ and Dissident Orientalism.Laurence Cox - 2013 - Contemporary Buddhism 14 (1):116-133.
    Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesting implications in relation to class, ethnicity and politics. ‘Beachcomber Buddhists’ highlight the wider situation of ‘poor whites’ in Asia—needed by empire but prone to defect from elite standards of behaviour designed to maintain imperial and racial power. ‘Going native’, exemplified by the European bhikkhu, highlights the difficulties faced by empire in policing these racial boundaries and the role of Asian agency in early ‘western’ (...)
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  • A Buddhist crossroads: pioneer European Buddhists and globalizing Asian networks 1860–1960.Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox & Brian Bocking - 2013 - Contemporary Buddhism 14 (1):1-16.
    Single-country approaches to the study of Buddhism miss the crucial significance of international networks in the making of modern Buddhism, in a period when the material basis for such networks had been transformed. Southeast Asia in particular acted as a dynamic crossroads in this period enabling the emergence of a ?global Buddhism? not controlled by any single sect, while India and Japan both played unexpectedly significant roles in this crossroads. A key element of this process was the encounter between Asian (...)
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