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1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
This study of Japanese Buddhism focuses on the tradition of the monk as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day. |
Contents |
Characteristics of Japanese Buddhism -- Ancient Buddhism -- official monks -- Official and reclusive monks -- Medieval Japanese towns and the rise of Kamakura New Buddhism -- Fieldwork in Kamakura -- Black and white -- The era of religious fund-raising -- The salvation of outcasts -- The salvation of women -- The logic of funerals -- The new thinking of Kamakura New Buddhism -- The rise of medieval towns -- Buddhism in the Muromachi era -- Buddhists in the Edo era -- Moral times and Japanese Buddhism -- The Shikoku pilgrimage. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Japan -- History.
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Buddhist monasticism and religious orders. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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Buddhism -- Japan -- History.
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Buddhism. |
Chronological Term |
Geschichte. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Matsuo, Kenji, 1954- History of Japanese Buddhism. Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2007 9781905246410 (OCoLC)74969351 |
ISBN |
9789004213319 (electronic book) |
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9004213317 (electronic book) |
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9781905246410 |
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1905246412 |
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1905246595 |
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9781905246595 |
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