TY - BOOK ID - 2377503 TI - The Lotus Sutra in Japanese culture AU - Tanabe, George J. Jr AU - Tanabe, Willa Jane PY - 1989 SN - 0824811984 9780824811983 PB - Honolulu University of Hawaii press DB - UniCat KW - Tripiṭaka. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Congresses. KW - Japan KW - Civilization KW - Buddhist influences KW - J1821.20 KW - J1865 KW - Tripitaka. Sūtrapitaka. Saddharmapundarīkasūtra KW - -Japan KW - Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- scriptures -- sutra -- Lotus sutra (Hokekyō) KW - Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- relation with society KW - -Congresses. KW - -Buddhist influences KW - Tripiṭaka. KW - Bonbun hokekyō KW - Cheng fa hua ching KW - Chʻŏm myopŏp yŏnhwagyŏng KW - Chʻŏmpʻum myopŏp yŏnhwagyŏng KW - Chŏng pŏphwagyŏng KW - Dam paʼi chos padma dkar po las mos paʼi leʼu KW - Fa hua ching KW - Lotus de la bonne loi KW - Lotus Sutra KW - Miao fa lian hua jing KW - Miao fa lien hua ching KW - Myobŏp yŏnhwagyŏng KW - Pophwagyŏng KW - Saddharma-pundarîka KW - Saddharmapuṇḍarīka KW - Saddharmapuṇdarīka-sūtram KW - Sūtra del Loto KW - Tʻien pʻin miao fa lien hua ching KW - Nihon KW - Nippon KW - Iapōnia KW - Zhāpān KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Yapan KW - Japon KW - Japão KW - Japam KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Yīpun KW - Jih-pen KW - Riben KW - Government of Japan KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - Nipponkoku KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nihon-koku KW - State of Japan KW - Япония KW - Japani KW - اليابان KW - al-Yābān KW - يابان KW - Yābān KW - Japonsko KW - Giappone KW - Japonia KW - Japonya KW - Tripitaka. Sutrapitaka. Saddharmapundarikasutra KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Congresses KW - Sūtra du Lotus KW - Japan - Civilization - Buddhist influence - Congresses KW - Jepun KW - Yapon KW - Yapon Ulus KW - I︠A︡pon KW - Япон KW - I︠A︡pon Uls KW - Япон Улс UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2377503 AB - Arguably the most important document in Japanese Buddhism, the "Lotus Sutra" has had so pervasive an influence that it might be said that no area of Japanese culture has been left untouched by it. This volume is the first attempt in a Western language to look at the sutra's cultural significance from a multidisciplinary perspective. Japanese and North American scholars of history, religion, art, and literature examine how doctrine and worship, meaning and ritual, ideology and power, didactics and aesthetics, have been intertwined in the sutra's long and fascinating history. The book begins with essays by Shioiri Ryōdō and Tamura Yoshirō that summarize the traditional understanding of the content of the sutra and the traditional methods used in analyzing it as a religious document. The essays by Paul Groner, Neil McMullin, and Kuroda Toshio examine how the scripture came to be used by the priesthood both as a buttress in sectarian arguments and as a means to capture political power. The sutra's influence on the arts is the concern of Miya Tsugio, who delineates the various images used to convey the messages of the text in pictorial art, and Yamada Shōzen, who demonstrates its role as the inspiration for numerous poems and as a basis for differentiating poetic style. Allan G Grapard, in his chapter on the "Lotus Sutra" in Kunisaki, reveals the text's applications in the interpretation of physical space and landscape. The final two essays by George J. Tanabe, Jr., and Helen Hardacre discuss the sutra's continuing influence on twentieth-century religious leaders and the new religions of Japan. ER -