Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan 9780824859398
Women have long been active supporters and promoters of Buddhist rituals and functions, but their importance in the oper
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Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Preface
Maps and Charts
Introduction
Chapter One. Female Leaders and Gendered Spaces
Chapter Two. Itinerant Path: Women on the Road
Chapter Three. Fourteenth- Century Mixed-Gender Practice Halls
Chapter Four. Practice Halls of Kyoto: Urban Jishū Nuns
Chapter Five. The Yugyō School: Fifteenth Century and Beyond
Conclusion
Appendix: Translations of Selected Texts
Notes
Bibliography
Index
