Introduction -- Recent Interest in the 1893 Exposition and Parliament -- Positioning of Asian Delegates at the Parliament -- Notes -- Buddhism Repackaged for Meiji Nationalism -- Modern Buddhism and Invented Tradition -- Meiji Buddhist Apologetics Prior to the 1893 Parliament -- Notes -- Japan's Status at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition -- Exhibiting Japanese Civilization -- Representing Culture: Revealing Character -- Notes -- Why Did the Buddhists Come to the West? -- Rejection of ParliamentÌs Invitation and Assumptions -- Opportunity Seized -- Conflict Among Japanese Delegates -- Unified Message -- Notes -- Religion, Nationalism, and Diplomacy -- Religion and Politics -- Notes -- Illuminating the Greater Vehicle -- Reversing Anti- Mahayana Bias in the West -- Promoting Mahayana in America -- Notes -- Era of Science and Religious Reform -- Science and Buddhist- Christian Polemics -- In Japan -- In Europe and America -- Science as Apologetic Ally -- Buddhist Apologetics & "Religion of Science" after 1893 -- Importing, Exporting, and Mediating Buddhism -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.