The Teachers Who Came West
Several of these teachers addressed the same landmark 1893 international religious gathering that launched their traditions' modern Western reception, choosing themselves what to present and what to hold back — active participants shaping their own traditions' reception abroad, not simply passive subjects of Western observation and projection.
Vivekananda, Anagarika Dharmapala and Soyen Shaku, addressing the World's Parliament of Religions (September 1893)
Named Asian religious teachers who deliberately travelled to introduce their own traditions to Western audiences, actively shaping what was received.