“The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire” (2020), by Laurence Cox, Alicia Turner and Brian Bocking.
Associate professor of sociology at National University of Ireland Maynooth, Dr. Laurence Cox lectures on “Irish Hobo, Buddhist Monk, Anti-colonial Celebrity: The Strange Story of U Dhammaloka/Laurence Carroll” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series.
Laurence Carroll / U Dhammaloka (1856-1914) was a Dublin-born emigrant, US hobo and Pacific sailor who became a Buddhist monk in Burma and an anti-colonial celebrity active from Sri Lanka to Japan. In this lecture, Cox, co-author of The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire (Oxford 2020), looks at some of the most dramatic moments in Dhammaloka’s extraordinary life and explores how he brought his Irish and American experience to bear on religion, race and the challenge to Empire in Asia.
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The Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students, and the community at large, a wider and deeper sense of the languages, literatures, drama, visual arts, history, politics, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon.
The Fund for Irish Studies is generously sponsored by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for Irish Studies.
