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Obaku zen : the emergence of the third sect of zen in Tokugawa Japan.
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ISBN: 0824822439 9780824822439 Year: 2000 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press

Mystères de la sagesse immobile
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ISBN: 2226029303 9782226029300 Year: 1987 Publisher: Paris Albin Michel

Vers la terre pure : oeuvres classiques du bouddhisme japonais.
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ISBN: 2738423132 9782738423139 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan


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Leaving for the Rising Sun : Chinese Zen master Yinyuan and the authenticity crisis in early modern East Asia
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ISBN: 9780199393138 9780199393121 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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"In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded his own tradition called Obaku. The sequel to Jiang Wu's 2008 book Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China, Leaving for the Rising Sun tells the story of the tremendous obstacles Yinyuan faced, drawing parallels between his experiences and the broader political and cultural context in which he lived. Yinyuan claimed to have inherited the "Authentic Transmission of the Linji Sect" and, after arriving in Japan, was able to persuade the Shogun to build a new Ming-style monastery for the establishment of his Obaku school. His arrival in Japan coincided with a series of historical developments including the Ming-Qing transition, the consolidation of early Tokugawa power, the growth of Nagasaki trade, and rising Japanese interest in Chinese learning and artistic pursuits. While Yinyuan's travel has been noted, the significance of his journey within East Asian history has not yet been fully explored. Jiang Wu's thorough study of Yinyuan provides a unique opportunity to reexamine the crisis in the continent and responses from other parts of East Asia. Using Yinyuan's story to bridge China and Japan, Wu demonstrates that the monk's significance is far greater than the temporary success of a religious sect. Rather, Yinyuan imported to Japan a new discourse of authenticity that gave rise to indigenous movements that challenged a China-centered world order. Such indigenous movements, however, although appearing independent from Chinese influence, in fact largely relied on redefining the traditional Chinese discourse of authenticity. Chinese monks such as Yinyuan, though situated at the edge of the political and social arenas, actively participated in the formation of a new discourse on authenticity, which eventually led to the breakup of a China-centered world order"-- "This book tells the story of Chinese Zen master Yinyuan's journey from China to Japan amid the turmoil of the Manchu conquest of China. Despite tremendous difficulties, he persuaded the Shogun to build for him a new monastery (Manpukuji) in Kyoto and founded his own tradition called Obaku"--

Letting go : The story of zen master Tosui
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ISBN: 0824824407 0824823583 9780824824402 Year: 2001 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii

The Zen Master Hakuin : selected writings.
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ISBN: 0231034636 9780231034630 0231060416 9780231060417 Year: 1971 Volume: 86 Publisher: New York Columbia university press


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The princess nun : Bunchi, Buddhist reform, and gender in early Edo Japan
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ISBN: 9780674491977 9781684175413 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Asia Center

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This book tells the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of EnshMji. Bunchi advocated strict adherence to monastic precepts while devoting herself to the posthumous welfare of her family. As the first full-length biographical study of a premodern Japanese nun, this book incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice and religious reforms to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion.


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An Imperial Concubine's Tale
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ISBN: 9780231158541 9780231530873 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York, NY

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Japan in the early 17th century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking sake and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal. This book recounts the story of this resilient woman.

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