Plotting the Prince: Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism 9780824865726

Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism 9780824840501

Original enlightenment thought (hongaku shiso) dominated Buddhist intellectual circles throughout Japan’s medieval perio

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The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism 9780824861148

This is a study of visual and textual images of the mythical creature tengu from the late Heian (897–1185) to the late K

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Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism 9780691219561

Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese traditio

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Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism 9780824862152

For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine es

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Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism 9780226730165

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanes

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Shotoku Taishi and Shitenno-ji

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The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism 0824815874

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The Prince of Night

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The Kingdom of the Cults Handbook 9781493421817

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The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan 0520056221, 9780520056220

"A masterly book . . . will prove of great assistance to a student of Japanese literature and thought from the elev

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