Uchiyama Gudō’s Anarchist Buddhism
From Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s-1990s
The Impact of International Socialism on Japanese Buddhism
Uchiyama Gudō’s background in Buddhism inspired his socialist beliefs; therefore, he understood socialism and anarchism not as departures from Buddhism, but as natural expressions of Buddhist egalitarianism. What he failed to grasp, however, were the conflicting natures of Buddhism’s inner liberation and anarchism’s outer revolution.