Author: Tweed, Thomas A.; Introduction: Stein, Stephen J.
Paperback; 2 Tables, Notes, Bibliograhy, Index
272 pages
Published: September 2000
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807849065

Traces the efforts of 19th-century American interpreters to make sense of newly-arrived Buddhism in Western terms. The author shows that American understanding of Buddhism, even for its most enthusiastic proponents, was significantly shaped by the prevailing culture until the following century.