09-27-2007, 08:19 AM
The author seems to railing against the Japanese version of Vivekanada:
Okakura KakuzÅ (February 14, 1863 - September 2, 1913;
wikipedia: Okakura_Kakuzo
<img src='http://www.terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/img/okakura.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
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His book, The Ideals of the East, (1904), published on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, is famous for its opening line, "Asia is one." He argued that Asia is "one" in its humiliation, of falling behind in achieving modernization, and thus being colonized by the Western powers. This was an early expression of Pan-Asianism.
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The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tea.htm
Okakura KakuzÅ (February 14, 1863 - September 2, 1913;
wikipedia: Okakura_Kakuzo
<img src='http://www.terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/img/okakura.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
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His book, The Ideals of the East, (1904), published on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, is famous for its opening line, "Asia is one." He argued that Asia is "one" in its humiliation, of falling behind in achieving modernization, and thus being colonized by the Western powers. This was an early expression of Pan-Asianism.
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The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tea.htm