... I never could see anything till I fasted. You just go without your meals for a couple of days... more ... I never could see anything till I fasted. You just go without your meals for a couple of days, and you'll see the odie light quite easily. It shines about magnets and about people and it comes up from graves, and fasting is not really disagreeable except at meal-times. ...
This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a departm... more This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a department whose activities have not yet been thoroughly researched academically in the film study of Indian film industry. My study concentrates on a person named Pollachi Raja, the pioneering local manager working mainly in the area around Pollachi, a local town standing on the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala states in South India, and my interviews with him made twice in recent years form the major resource of the study. A few films are taken as a sampler amongst more than one hundred filmic works to which Raja was involved as a professional local manager, and the detailed services a local manager supplies to filmmakers and their significance in Indian filmmaking are examined.
This paper is to examine the nature of the International Lodge, founded in 1920 in Tokyo, Japan, ... more This paper is to examine the nature of the International Lodge, founded in 1920 in Tokyo, Japan, with the evidences newly found since Algeo's study was published in 2005. The materials supplementing Algeo's previous study are left by DT Suzuki, who presided over the Lodge, and later its offspring Mahayana Lodge in Kyoto. The International Lodge was a small cell of the Theosophical Society, formed to be a "mother lodge" for thriving local lodges across Japan, and its failure is obvious in terms that the Mahayana Lodge was a sole surviving offspring. However, this fact by no means decreases the significance of the Lodge in Japan's interwar world, and my study examines this in three different respects: political, economic, and literary. First, the close relationship between the Lodge and Japan's Pan-Asianist organization like the Black Dragon Society is discussed, on the assumption that this was designed by Annie Besant, the President of the Theosophical Society. Secondly, the demand for firm commercial connections between Japan and India is taken up to consider that the demand was a factor functioning behind the Pan-Asianist movement, and here the activity a Ceylonese Buddhist Dharmapala carried out is exemplified. Examined lastly is the social network established between several Lodge members and introducers of the contemporary Anglo-Irish literary works to Japanese literature, and this leads us to the consideration that the summer resort Karuizawa was a variation of a hill station, the exclusive colonists' community formed in many places in India and other colonies, and its cultural value was allegedly identified with the "internationality," the feature the Lodge embodied.
This paper is to study textually the diary written by a Ceylonese Buddhist reformist Anagarika Dh... more This paper is to study textually the diary written by a Ceylonese Buddhist reformist Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) from 1889 to 1932, and to establish its documentary value by examining the differences between its alternative versions. My research in the National Archive of Sri Lanka and the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust in Colombo revealed that several editions were produced from the original handwritten diary, now stored in the National Archive. Two different photographed copies were made; one is a film-copied microfilm in the National Archive, and the other is a digitally photographed compilation the Trust keeps, in which the volumes of several years are missing. To fill in them, the Trust has typewritten volumes, a private edition made in 1960s by the order of the Trust Board. Another copy of this is held in the National Archive. In both cases, many volumes, at least of nine years, are missing. Serious errors taken place when the original handwritten diaries were transcribed can be found, mainly due to the deterioration of the original manuscript. The errors are relatively few in the early years, and this made me suspect that the typewritten volumes of those years were created in use of an earlier transcription, made for the excerpted Dharmapala Diary published indeterminately from 1943 in The Journal of Maha Bodhi Society. The existence of this earlier transcription has not been confirmed so far, but inferable enough is that the involvement of Devapriya Valasinha into the editorship increased the correctness in the transcribing procedure, as he was Dharmapala’s private secretary who personally knew him and was familiar with his handwriting. My study reveals that six alternative versions of the Dharmapala Diary including an assuming transcribed manuscript made as a material for the excerpted Dairy were produced. All complement with each other, but the several volumes, including the significant years for Dharmapala’s life such as 1890 and 1912, are still missing. In order to use the Dharmapala Diary for academic purpose, an optical correction of the digital copy is necessary, and the establishment of a variorum, comparing each version and finalizing the complicated differences between them, should be written as soon as possible.
This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a departm... more This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a department whose activities have not yet been thoroughly researched academically in the film study of Indian film industry. My study concentrates on a person named Pollachi Raja, the pioneering local manager working mainly in the area around Pollachi, a local town standing on the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala states in South India, and my interviews with him made twice in recent years form the major resource of the study. A few films are taken as a sampler amongst more than one hundred filmic works to which Raja was involved as a professional local manager, and the detailed services a local manager supplies to filmmakers and their significance in Indian filmmaking are examined.
This article considers Mirra Alfassa's four-year stay in Japan from 1916. This period deserves se... more This article considers Mirra Alfassa's four-year stay in Japan from 1916. This period deserves serious attention because something during those years seems to have triggered her metamorphosis into the spiritual figure of the Mother. My study is an attempt to discover what this was by considering materials that relate to her relationship with Paul Richard, her then husband, a man with whom Mirra seemed to develop a deep spiritual connection with while living in Japan. I concentrate on two aspects of their activity. The first is their political support for the anti-British alliance between Indian refugees and Japanese Pan-Asianists and the second if their keen interest in Silent Sitting, a meditation method popular among Japanese and Zen-oriented Westerners in interwar-period Japan. Consideration of these activities enables us to alighn Mirra's strong commitment to and continual practice of youga with the broader current of physical culture then prevalent, and it becomes clear that Mirra held a channel to outer worlds while living in the Far East.
... I never could see anything till I fasted. You just go without your meals for a couple of days... more ... I never could see anything till I fasted. You just go without your meals for a couple of days, and you'll see the odie light quite easily. It shines about magnets and about people and it comes up from graves, and fasting is not really disagreeable except at meal-times. ...
This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a departm... more This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a department whose activities have not yet been thoroughly researched academically in the film study of Indian film industry. My study concentrates on a person named Pollachi Raja, the pioneering local manager working mainly in the area around Pollachi, a local town standing on the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala states in South India, and my interviews with him made twice in recent years form the major resource of the study. A few films are taken as a sampler amongst more than one hundred filmic works to which Raja was involved as a professional local manager, and the detailed services a local manager supplies to filmmakers and their significance in Indian filmmaking are examined.
This paper is to examine the nature of the International Lodge, founded in 1920 in Tokyo, Japan, ... more This paper is to examine the nature of the International Lodge, founded in 1920 in Tokyo, Japan, with the evidences newly found since Algeo's study was published in 2005. The materials supplementing Algeo's previous study are left by DT Suzuki, who presided over the Lodge, and later its offspring Mahayana Lodge in Kyoto. The International Lodge was a small cell of the Theosophical Society, formed to be a "mother lodge" for thriving local lodges across Japan, and its failure is obvious in terms that the Mahayana Lodge was a sole surviving offspring. However, this fact by no means decreases the significance of the Lodge in Japan's interwar world, and my study examines this in three different respects: political, economic, and literary. First, the close relationship between the Lodge and Japan's Pan-Asianist organization like the Black Dragon Society is discussed, on the assumption that this was designed by Annie Besant, the President of the Theosophical Society. Secondly, the demand for firm commercial connections between Japan and India is taken up to consider that the demand was a factor functioning behind the Pan-Asianist movement, and here the activity a Ceylonese Buddhist Dharmapala carried out is exemplified. Examined lastly is the social network established between several Lodge members and introducers of the contemporary Anglo-Irish literary works to Japanese literature, and this leads us to the consideration that the summer resort Karuizawa was a variation of a hill station, the exclusive colonists' community formed in many places in India and other colonies, and its cultural value was allegedly identified with the "internationality," the feature the Lodge embodied.
This paper is to study textually the diary written by a Ceylonese Buddhist reformist Anagarika Dh... more This paper is to study textually the diary written by a Ceylonese Buddhist reformist Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) from 1889 to 1932, and to establish its documentary value by examining the differences between its alternative versions. My research in the National Archive of Sri Lanka and the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust in Colombo revealed that several editions were produced from the original handwritten diary, now stored in the National Archive. Two different photographed copies were made; one is a film-copied microfilm in the National Archive, and the other is a digitally photographed compilation the Trust keeps, in which the volumes of several years are missing. To fill in them, the Trust has typewritten volumes, a private edition made in 1960s by the order of the Trust Board. Another copy of this is held in the National Archive. In both cases, many volumes, at least of nine years, are missing. Serious errors taken place when the original handwritten diaries were transcribed can be found, mainly due to the deterioration of the original manuscript. The errors are relatively few in the early years, and this made me suspect that the typewritten volumes of those years were created in use of an earlier transcription, made for the excerpted Dharmapala Diary published indeterminately from 1943 in The Journal of Maha Bodhi Society. The existence of this earlier transcription has not been confirmed so far, but inferable enough is that the involvement of Devapriya Valasinha into the editorship increased the correctness in the transcribing procedure, as he was Dharmapala’s private secretary who personally knew him and was familiar with his handwriting. My study reveals that six alternative versions of the Dharmapala Diary including an assuming transcribed manuscript made as a material for the excerpted Dairy were produced. All complement with each other, but the several volumes, including the significant years for Dharmapala’s life such as 1890 and 1912, are still missing. In order to use the Dharmapala Diary for academic purpose, an optical correction of the digital copy is necessary, and the establishment of a variorum, comparing each version and finalizing the complicated differences between them, should be written as soon as possible.
This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a departm... more This study is to examine the service provided by a local manager, the central figure of a department whose activities have not yet been thoroughly researched academically in the film study of Indian film industry. My study concentrates on a person named Pollachi Raja, the pioneering local manager working mainly in the area around Pollachi, a local town standing on the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala states in South India, and my interviews with him made twice in recent years form the major resource of the study. A few films are taken as a sampler amongst more than one hundred filmic works to which Raja was involved as a professional local manager, and the detailed services a local manager supplies to filmmakers and their significance in Indian filmmaking are examined.
This article considers Mirra Alfassa's four-year stay in Japan from 1916. This period deserves se... more This article considers Mirra Alfassa's four-year stay in Japan from 1916. This period deserves serious attention because something during those years seems to have triggered her metamorphosis into the spiritual figure of the Mother. My study is an attempt to discover what this was by considering materials that relate to her relationship with Paul Richard, her then husband, a man with whom Mirra seemed to develop a deep spiritual connection with while living in Japan. I concentrate on two aspects of their activity. The first is their political support for the anti-British alliance between Indian refugees and Japanese Pan-Asianists and the second if their keen interest in Silent Sitting, a meditation method popular among Japanese and Zen-oriented Westerners in interwar-period Japan. Consideration of these activities enables us to alighn Mirra's strong commitment to and continual practice of youga with the broader current of physical culture then prevalent, and it becomes clear that Mirra held a channel to outer worlds while living in the Far East.
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