Hallisey, CharlesSeligman, Eva J.2022-07-202022-05Seligman, Eva J. 2022. How to Be Wrong About Buddhism: A Graphic Memoir. Master's thesis, Harvard Divinity School.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37372716This project explores the entanglement of European colonialism/imperialism with the development of Buddhist studies in the West. It is told as a graphic memoir, tracing how the author’s relationship to Buddhist scholarship and practice shifts as she learns more about the co-constitution of race theory, European colonial projects, and the academic study of religion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Chapters: Prelude: Why a Graphic Memoir? Act I: In Which I Have the Rug Ripped Out From Under Me Act Ii: In Which I Learn What Buddhism Has to Do With the Idea of an Aryan Race Intermission: Every Time I Try to Pick Buddhism up It Slips Through My Fingers Act Ii: In Which I Admit I Have Told a Lie of Omission Coda: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Being Wrongen-USBuddhismimperialismcolonialismgraphic memoirrace theoryhistoryThesis or Dissertation2022-07-20