From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan: 50 - Rilegato

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Quinter, David

 
9789004293397: From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan: 50
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ISBN 10: 9004293396 ISBN 13: 9789004293397
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In From Outcasts to Emperors, David Quinter illuminates the Shingon Ritsu movement founded by the charismatic monk Eison (1201–90) at Saidaiji in Nara, Japan. The book’s focus on Eison and his disciples’ involvement in the cult of Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva reveals their innovative synthesis of Shingon esotericism, Buddhist discipline (Ritsu; Sk. vinaya), icon and temple construction, and social welfare activities as the cult embraced a spectrum of supporters, from outcasts to warrior and imperial rulers. In so doing, the book redresses typical portrayals of “Kamakura Buddhism” that cast Eison and other Nara Buddhist leaders merely as conservative reformers, rather than creative innovators, amid the dynamic religious and social changes of medieval Japan.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Quinter, Ph.D. (2006), Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Alberta. He has published eight articles on Buddhism, including “Localizing Strategies: Eison and the Shotoku Taishi Cult,” Monumenta Nipponica 69/2 (2014).

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Editore
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9004293396
ISBN 13 
9789004293397
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
340
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