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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162718703321

Autore

Deal William E.

Titolo

A cultural history of Japanese Buddhism / / William E. Deal and Brian Ruppert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-60833-X

1-4051-6701-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Wiley Blackwell Guides to Buddhism ; ; 1

Classificazione

REL007000

Disciplina

294.30952

Soggetti

Buddhism - Japan - History

Buddhism and culture - Japan - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Overview of the Book; Chapter 1: Early Historical Contexts (Protohistory to 645); Chapter 2: Ancient Buddhism (645-950); Chapter 3: Early Medieval Buddhism (950-1300): The Dawn of Medieval Society and Related Changes in Japanese Buddhist Culture; Chapter 4: Late Medieval Buddhism (1300-1467): New Buddhisms, Buddhist Learning, Dissemination and the Fall into Chaos; Chapter 5: Buddhism and the Transition to the Modern Era (1467-1800); Chapter 6: Modern Buddhism (1800-1945); Chapter 7: Buddhism Since 1945

On Translation Conventions; References; Chapter 1 Early Historical Contexts (Protohistory to 645); Buddhism's Transmission to Yamato: The Nihon shoki Narrative; Buddhism in the China Sea interaction sphere; Buddhist transmission routes: imperial narratives and private receptions; Conflicting dates for the transmission of Buddhism to the Japanese archipelago; Buddhism as an object and Buddhism as its objects; The ideology of official transmission narratives; Foreign gods vs. indigenous gods; Queen Suiko and Senior Prince Shōtoku; Asuka Buddhism (552-645)



Immigrants and the development of Asuka-period Buddhism Aristocratic family Buddhist patronage; Asuka-period Buddhist material culture and ritual practices; Asuka-period Buddhist images: The Shaka Triad; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2 Ancient Buddhism (645-950); Hakuhō Period Buddhism (645-710); Toward a state Buddhism; Establishment of state temples; State-sponsored Buddhist rituals; State control of the Buddhist monastic community; The problem of "state Buddhism" in the Hakuhō period; Nara-Period Buddhism (710-794); Buddhism in the permanent capital of a new nation

A national temple system The regulation of monks and nuns; Nara monasticism and the state; Expressions of an ancient Japanese Buddhist worldview; Early Heian Period Buddhism (794-950); New capital, new lineages; The problem of Heian new Buddhism; Early Heian Buddhist lineages: Tendai; Early Heian Buddhist lineages: Shingon; Women in Ancient Japanese Buddhism; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3 Early Medieval Buddhism (950-1300): The Dawn of Medieval Society and Related Changes in Japanese Buddhist Culture; Middle Heian- and Late Heian-Period Buddhism (950-1185)

Annual court ceremonies and envisioning a Buddhist ritual calendar The rising prominence of Tendai lineages and related shifts in Heian Buddhism; The advent of Pure Land Buddhist discourses and practices; Kami, Buddhas, and sacred space; Buddhist performance and the flowering of aesthetic traditions; Ritual knowledge, transmission, and the increasing prominence of esoteric Buddhist lineages; Japanese Buddhists within the East Asian cultural sphere; Scripture-copying, fund-raising campaigns, and the explosion of merit in the twelfth century; Early and Middle Kamakura-Period Buddhism (1185-1300)

Late Heian Buddhist knowledge, proselytization, and "Kamakura Buddhisms"

Sommario/riassunto

"Offers a vivid, nuanced, and chronological account of Buddhistreligion in Japan -- from its emergence in the sixth centuryright through to the present day"--