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Soto Zen in Medieval Japan
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
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Explores how Soto monks between the 13th and 16th centuries developed new forms of monastic organization and Zen instructions and new applications for Zen rituals within lay life; how these innovations helped shape rural society; and how remnants of them remain in the modern Soto school, now the …
How Zen Became Zen
The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China
Av Judy Rohrer
Häftad, 2010
216 kr
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How Zen Became Zen takes a novel approach to understanding one of the most crucial developments in Zen Buddhism: the dispute over the nature of enlightenment that erupted within the Chinese Chan (Zen) school in the twelfth century. The famous Linji (Rinzai) Chan master Dahui Zonggao (1089–1163) …
Patrons and Patriarchs
Chan Monks and Regional Rulers During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Häftad, 2015
593 kr
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Patrons and Patriarchs breaks new ground in the study of clergy-court relations during the tumultuous period that spanned the collapse of the Tang dynasty (618–907) and the consolidation of the Northern Song (960–1127). This era, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, has typically been …
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment
Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Av Jacqueline I. Stone, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
230 kr
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Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth …
Making of a Savior Bodhisattva
Dizang in Medieval China
Av Zhiru
Häftad, 2016
216 kr
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In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang helps the deceased faithful navigate the complex underworld bureaucracy, avert the punitive terrors of hell, and arrive at the happy realm of …
Burning for the Buddha
Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
Häftad, 2016
216 kr
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Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of ""abandoning the body""(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and …
Going Forth
Visions of Buddhist Vinaya
Häftad, 2019
216 kr
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In its role as a scriptural charter, vinaya has justified widely dissimilar approaches to religious life as Buddhist orders in different times and places have interpreted it in contradictory ways. In the resulting tension between scripture and practice, certain kinds of ceremonial issues (such as …
Ryōgen and Mount Hiei
Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century
Av Paul Groner
Häftad, 2019
216 kr
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Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to its emergence as the most powerful and influential school of Japanese Buddhism in the last half of the tenth century—a position it would maintain …
Approaching the Land of Bliss
Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha
Av Richard K. Payne, Kenneth K. Tanaka
Häftad, 2019
216 kr
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The discourse of Buddhist studies has traditionally been structured around texts and nations (the transmission of Buddhism from India to China to Japan). And yet, it is doubtful that these categories reflect in any significant way the organizing themes familiar to most Buddhists. It could be argued …
Chan Before Chan
Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
Av Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
774 kr
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What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on - and what should be going on - behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early …
Poetry Demon
Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way
Av Jason Protass, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
289 kr
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Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry "the poetry demon." In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although …
Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
Häftad, 2022
216 kr
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Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort Komyo (701–760), possesses a history that in some ways is bigger than itself. Its development is emblematic of larger patterns in the history of female monasticism in Japan. In …
Memory, Music, Manuscripts
The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen
Av Michaela Mross, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
774 kr
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Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist schools, including Sōtō Zen in the thirteenth century. In Memory, Music, Manuscripts, Michaela Mross elegantly …
Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Av Paul Groner, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
774 kr
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Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and …
Memory, Music, Manuscripts
The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen
Av Michaela Mross, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
216 kr
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Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist schools, including Sōtō Zen in the thirteenth century. In Memory, Music, Manuscripts, Michaela Mross elegantly …
Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Av Paul Groner, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
216 kr
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Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and …
Chan Before Chan
Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
Av Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
216 kr
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What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval …
Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China
Häftad, 2023
216 kr
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Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva are among the most celebrated Indian patriarchs in Asian Buddhist traditions and modern Buddhist studies scholarship. Scholars agree that all three lived in first- to third-century C.E. India, so most studies have focused on locating them in ancient Indian …
Patrons and Patriarchs
Regional Rulers and Chan Monks During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Häftad, 2023
216 kr
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Patrons and Patriarchs breaks new ground in the study of clergy-court relations during the tumultuous period that spanned the collapse of the Tang dynasty (618–907) and the consolidation of the Northern Song (960–1127). This era, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, has typically been …
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts
The Varieties of Zhai in Chinese Buddhism from the Second to the Tenth Century
Av Yi Ding, Jacqueline I. Stone m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
774 kr
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Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensive analysis of the varieties of zhai, a multifaceted term with deep historical and religious significance in Chinese Buddhism. Drawing on a wide array of sources—including canonical texts, apocryphal …
How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650–850
Av Bryan D. Lowe, Jacqueline I. Stone m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
777 kr
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Between the late seventh and early ninth centuries, Japan changed from a land largely without Buddhism to a country where Buddhist ideas, images, and practices were everywhere. The introduction of Buddhism transformed the social and intellectual life of the provinces. Regions that once lacked …
Sudden and Gradual
Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought
Inbunden, 1988
774 kr
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Paths to Liberation
The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought
Av Robert E. Buswell, Robert M. Gimello
Inbunden, 1992
774 kr
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Buddhist Dead
Practices, Discourses, Representations
Av Bryan J. Cuevas, Jacqueline I. Stone
Inbunden, 2007
774 kr
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In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative …
Making of a Savior Bodhisattva
Dizang in Medieval China
Av Zhiru
Inbunden, 2007
593 kr
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In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang awaits the faithful to help them navigate the complex underworld bureaucracy, avert the sufferings of hells, and arrive at the happy realm of …
Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
Av Lori Meeks
Inbunden, 2010
565 kr
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Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort Komyo (701-760), possesses a history that in some ways is bigger than itself. Its development is emblematic of larger patterns in the history of female monasticism in Japan. In this …
Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China
Inbunden, 2015
677 kr
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A?vaghoa, N?g?rjuna, and ?ryadeva are among the most celebrated Indian patriarchs in Asian Buddhist traditions and modern Buddhist studies scholarship. Scholars agree that all three lived in fi rst- to third-century C.E. India, so most studies have focused on locating them in ancient Indian …
Ritualized Writing
Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan
Av Bryan D. Lowe, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
774 kr
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Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English, primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts, Bryan D. Lowe uncovers …
Poetry Demon
Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way
Av Jason Protass, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
890 kr
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Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960-1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry ""the poetry demon."" In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although …
Ritualized Writing
Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan
Av Bryan D. Lowe, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
216 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English, primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts, Bryan D. Lowe uncovers …
