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1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : Japan's culture of secrecy from a comparative perspective / Mark Teeuwen -- Secrets and secrecy in the study of religion : comparative views from the ancient world / Albert de Jong -- The Problem of secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism / Ronald M. Davidson -- Myth and secrecy in Tang-period Tantric Buddhism / Martin Lehnert -- Secrecy in Japanese esoteric Buddhism / Fabio Rambelli -- Reconsidering the taxonomy of the esoteric : hermeneutical and ritual practices of the lotus sutra / Lucia Dolce -- Knowing vs. owning a secret : secrecy in medieval Japan, as seen through the sokui kanjo enthronement unction / Mark Teeuwen -- Secrecy, sex and apocrypha : remarks on some paradoxical phenomena / Nobumi Iyanaga -- Esotericism in noh commentaries and plays : Konparu Zenchiku's Meishuku shu and Kakitsubata / Susan Blakeley Klein -- The elephant in the room : the cult of secrecy in Japanese Tantrism / Bernard Faure -- Myths, rites, and Icons : three views of a secret / Kadoya Atsushi -- Two modes of secrecy in the Nihon shoki transmission / Bernhard Scheid -- When secrecy ends : the Tokugawa reformation of Tendai Buddhism and its implications / William M. Bodiford -- Hiding the shoguns : secrecy and the nature of political authority in Tokugawa Japan / Anne Walthall -- "Esoteric" and "public" in the late Mito thought / Kate Wildman Nakai. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Secrecy -- Religious aspects.
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Secrecy -- Religious aspects. |
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Secrecy -- Japan.
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Secrecy. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Civilization -- Buddhist influences.
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Civilization. |
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Secrecy -- Religious aspects -- Tantric Buddhism.
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Tantric Buddhism. |
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Tantric Buddhism -- Japan -- History.
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Secrecy. |
| Added Author |
Scheid, Bernhard, 1960-
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Teeuwen, Mark.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture of secrecy in Japanese religion. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006 0415387132 (DLC) 2006003448 (OCoLC)63679956 |
| ISBN |
9780203966990 (electronic book) |
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0203966996 (electronic book) |
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0415387132 |
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9780415387132 |
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0415546893 |
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9780415546898 |
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