Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	ix, 371 p. : ill
Disciplina	299/.561172
Altri autori (Persone)	TeeuwenMark RambelliFabio
Soggetto topico	Shinto - Relations - Buddhism Buddhism - Relations - Shinto
ISBN	1-134-43123-6 1-134-43124-4 1-138-96516-2 1-280-07016-1 0-203-22025-0
Classificazione	11.87
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	chapter 1 Introduction: combinatory religion and the honji suijaku paradigm in pre-modern Japan / MARK TEEUWEN -- chapter 2 From thunder child to Dharma-protector: Døjø høshi and the Buddhist appropriation of Japanese local deities / IRENE H. LIN -- chapter 3 The source of oracular speech: absence? presence? or plain treachery? The case of Hachiman Usa-g gotakusensh / ALLAN GRAPARD -- chapter 4 Wrathful deities and saving deities / SAT HIROO -- chapter 5 The creation of a honji suijaku deity: Amaterasu as the Judge of the Dead / MARK TEEUWEN -- chapter 6 Honji suijaku and the logic of combinatory deities: two case studies IYANAGA NOBUMI -- chapter 7 Wild words and syncretic deities: ky�gen kigo and honji suijaku in medieval literary allegoresis / SUSAN BLAKELEY KLEIN -- chapter 8 “Both parts” or “only one”? Challenges to the honji suijaku paradigm in the Edo period / BERNHARD SCHEID -- chapter 9 Hokke Shinto: kami in the Nichiren tradition / LUCIA DOLCE -- chapter 10 Honji suijaku at work: religion, economics, and ideology in pre-modern Japan / FABIO RAMBELLI -- chapter 11 The interaction between Buddhist and Shinto traditions at Suwa Shrine / INOUE TAKAMI -- chapter 12 Dancing the doctrine: honji suijaku thought in kagura performances / IRIT AVERBUCH.
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Autore	Waldron William S
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina	294.3/42042
Collana	RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in Buddhism
Soggetto topico	Ālayavijñāna Yogācāra (Buddhism) Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-203-46083-9 1-280-07257-1 0-203-45117-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Thematic introduction: a Buddhist critique of the construction of self and world; The background and context of the alaya-vijana; The early Buddhist background; The Abhidharma context; The alaya-vijana in the Yogacara tradition; The alaya-vijana in the early tradition; The alaya-vijana in the Mahayana-sagraha 1. bringing it all back home; The alaya-vijana in the Mahayana-sagraha 2. looking beyond; Appendices; The series of dependent arising: affliction, action, and their results; Index of related controversies Translation: the Pravtti and Nivtti Portions of the Vinicayasagraha of the YogacarabhmiNotes; Bibliography of works cited; Index of texts quoted; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450958303321

Autore	Waldron William S. <1954->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages)
Disciplina	294.3/42042
Collana	RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in Buddhism
Soggetto topico	Ālayavijñāna Yogācāra (Buddhism) Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
ISBN	1-134-42885-5 0-203-46083-9 1-280-07257-1 0-203-45117-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Thematic introduction: a Buddhist critique of the construction of self and world; The background and context of the alaya-vijana; The early Buddhist background; The Abhidharma context; The alaya-vijana in the Yogacara tradition; The alaya-vijana in the early tradition; The alaya-vijana in the Mahayana-sagraha 1. bringing it all back home; The alaya-vijana in the Mahayana-sagraha 2. looking beyond; Appendices; The series of dependent arising: affliction, action, and their results; Index of related controversies Translation: the Pravtti and Nivtti Portions of the Vinicayasagraha of the Yogacarabhmi; Notes; Bibliography of works cited; Index of texts quoted; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910783975103321

Autore	Yen Yuehping <1969, >
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina	745.6/19951
Collana	Anthropology of Asia
Soggetto topico	Calligraphy, Chinese - Social aspects Personality and culture - China
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-203-34884-2 1-134-37062-8 1-280-05904-4 0-203-59060-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Brief chronology of Chinese history; Introduction: the abode of calligraphic inscriptions; First encounter with social calligraphy; Modern technology spells the end of Chinese writing?; Writing and calligraphy - an anthropological lack; The ambiguity of Chinese calligraphy - where function meets aesthetics; Some methodological considerations; 1 Dances with power: Public calligraphy and its social effects; Public calligraphy Art or not: a matter of social manipulationThe power brush; 2 Becoming a person through wen; Mingong: anything that city people are not; The notion of wenhua; Ascending the tower of deep knowledge; 3 Handwriting and personhood; Fascination with handwriting; Handwriting and personhood; Calligraphy or handwriting as the extension of the body-person; 4 Body-person engineering through ink and brush: Brush techniques and calligraphic composition; Anthropological literature on personhood and embodiment; Brush techniques; The composition of calligraphy; The moral brush 5 Brush work: Alternative bodybuildingPractising calligraphy: the cultivation of a good body and a sound mind; The learning process magnified; The embodied brush and the production of subjectivity; Calligraphic paradox as the locus of social manipulation; 6 Ideograms and knowledge; Written characters as the base of knowledge?; The modern script reform in China and its implication for Bloch's thesis; Linguistic myth turned into social reality; 7 Characters reloaded; Re-inventing calligraphy: characters are still good to think with; The ever-evolving relationship with power The re-enchantment of calligraphy - the agency of calligraphyNotes; Bibliography; List of Chinese characters for terms used in the text; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450455903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina	338.095
Altri autori (Persone)	DahlesHeidi MuijzenbergOtto Diederik van den
Collana	RoutledgeCurzon studies in the growth economies of Asia
Soggetto topico	Service industries - Asia Social mobility - Asia Industrial policy - Asia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-40933-8 0-203-71178-5 1-280-03758-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Capital and Knowledge in Asia; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Producer services, social mobility and the state in Asia: Lessons from Western economies; PART I The new economy: boosting new people or bolstering old ties?; 2 Networking for domination: The interconnectivity among business and government actors in the information technology industry of Hong Kong; 3 The status of non-banking financial companies in India: A case study from Ahmedabad, Gujarat 4 Cyber gurus and social mobility in India's 'Silicon Valley'5 Restructuring capitalist power in the Philippines: Elite consolidation and upward mobility in producer services; 6 Land investors during the property boom of the 1990s and the elite of Metro Cebu; Part II Engineering a new middle class: Singapore and Malaysia; 7 Brokering change, changing brokers: The Chinese business elite and decolonization politics in Singapore, 1945-65; 8 Social networks and modern management style: Pawnbroking business in Singapore; 9 Establishing an enduring business: The Great Eastern-OCBC group 10 Local merchant shipping companies in Malaysia: Expansion and diversificationPart III Producer services in transitional economies; 11 New entrepreneurs in reform China: Economic growth and social change in Taiyuan, Shanxi; 12 Business services in transitional economies: The case of Russia; 13 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450460303321