As an Irish Catholic with a Hungarian-Jewish background in ancestry, Bloom`s multiply stratified racial identity has sparked a variety of controversies such as the authenticity of his Jewish origin-an uncircumcised Christian Jew, the validity of his Hungarian origin in the matter of his putative association with the Sinn Fein movement of Arthur Griffith, or the Irish anti-Semitism at the turn of the century. Joyce evidently distanced himself from the anti-Semitic agitation by in particular the Irish nationalists. For Joyce, the anti-Semitism in Ireland epitomizes the maladies of Irish society such as political parochialism based upon racial or religious bigotry. Little attention has been paid to the links between Bloom`s multiple identities and the Buddhist doctrine of "no-self." One of the three Buddhist truths (Dhama in Pali), i.e. the emptiness of the self, contributed to building up the cornerstone of Joycean pacifism in which egoism is annihilated by love and sympathy and, subsequently, persons with different identities are reconciled with each other. Bloom of multiple racial origins is Joycean embodiment of a "new Celtic race" to integrate the racially, religiously, ethnically, and politically divided Irish people.