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

The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520342675

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

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The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520342675

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Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan [Course Book ed.] 9781400862948

According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering o

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Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan 9780824841911

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Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan 9780824866860

Scholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina. Many o

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Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan 9780824867652

Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said

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

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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts 9780226132655

In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in

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The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan 9780824837556

This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of

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