A History of Japanese Buddhism

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-905246-41-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill NV

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Global Oriental

This first major study in English on Japanese Buddhism by one of Japan’s most distinguished scholars in the field of Religious Studies is to be widely welcomed.The main focus of the work is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matsuo, Kenji

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Japanese Calendar, Temples, Names and Words; List of Plates; Introduction; 1 Characteristics of Japanese Buddhism; 2 Ancient Buddhism - Official Monks; 3 Official and Reclusive Monks; 4 Medieval Japanese Towns and the Rise of Kamakura New Buddhism; 5 Fieldwork in Kamakura; 6 Black and White: The Symbolism of the Colour of the Kesa; 7 Era of Religious Fund-raising; 8 Salvation of Outcasts; 9 Salvation of Women; 10 The Logic of Funerals - the Salvation of the Deceased; 11 The New Thinking of Kamakura New Buddhism - Shinran and Eizon; 12 Rise of the Medieval Towns and Awareness of the 'Individual'; 13 Buddhism in the Muromachi Era; 14 Buddhists in the Edo Era - 'Official Monks' of the Edo Shogunate; 15 Modern Times and Japanese Buddhism; 16 Shikoku Pilgrimage - Visiting the Ancient Sites of Kobo Daishi; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kenji Matsuo has taught the history of Japanese Buddhism at Princeton University, Beijing Foreign Language University, London University and the State University of New York. He has published sixteen books on this and related subjects in Japanese; this is his first in English. He is currently professor at Yamagata University, Japan.