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Zen and Japanese culture
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ISBN: 0804815607 Year: 1991 Publisher: Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle,

Zen and japanese culture
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ISBN: 0691017700 0691098492 9780691098494 Year: 1973 Volume: 64 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

Engendering faith : women and Buddhism in premodern Japan.
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ISBN: 1929280157 Year: 2002 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan. Center for Japanese studies

Neither monk nor layman : clerical marriage in modern Japanese Buddhism.
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ISBN: 069107495X 0691231095 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

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Buddhism comes in many forms, but in Japan it stands apart from all the rest in one striking way - the monks get married. This study addresses the emergence of an openly married clergy as a momentous change in the history of modern Japanese Buddhism.

The red thread : Buddhist approaches to sexuality
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ISBN: 0691059977 0691059985 1400822602 9786612753459 1282753452 1400811554 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,

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Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author's anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between the normative teachings of Buddhism and what its followers practice. Framing his discussion on some of the most prominent Western thinkers of sexuality--Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault--Faure draws from different reservoirs of writings, such as the orthodox and heterodox "doctrines" of Buddhism, and its monastic codes. Virtually untapped mythological as well as legal sources are also used. The dialectics inherent in Mahvyvna Buddhism, in particular in the Tantric and Chan/Zen traditions, seemed to allow for greater laxity and even encouraged breaking of taboos. Faure also offers a history of Buddhist monastic life, which has been buffeted by anticlerical attitudes, and by attempts to regulate sexual behavior from both within and beyond the monastery. In two chapters devoted to Buddhist homosexuality, he examines the way in which this sexual behavior was simultaneously condemned and idealized in medieval Japan. This book will appeal especially to those interested in the cultural history of Buddhism and in premodern Japanese culture. But the story of how one of the world's oldest religions has faced one of life's greatest problems makes fascinating reading for all.

Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan : Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society
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ISBN: 0674002407 9780674002401 1684173353 9781684173358 Year: 2000 Publisher: Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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"By investigating the economy and cultural politics of Sensoji Nam-lin Hur shows that the Buddhist culture of prayer and play exemplified by this temple reflected the changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the urban environment of Edo. Play was an integral part of the business of religion at Sensoji, and it supplied both in equal measure to the often rootless Edoites. Hur's reappraisal of prayer and play and their inherent connectedness provides a cultural critique of conventional scholarship on Tokugawa religion and shows how Edo commoners incorporated cultural politics into their daily lives through the pursuit of prayer and play."--Jacket.

The Lotus Sutra in Japanese culture
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ISBN: 0824811984 9780824811983 Year: 1989 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press

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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.

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Tripiṭaka. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Congresses. --- Japan --- Civilization --- Buddhist influences --- J1821.20 --- J1865 --- Tripitaka. Sūtrapitaka. Saddharmapundarīkasūtra --- -Japan --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- scriptures -- sutra -- Lotus sutra (Hokekyō) --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- relation with society --- -Congresses. --- -Buddhist influences --- Tripiṭaka. --- Bonbun hokekyō --- Cheng fa hua ching --- Chʻŏm myopŏp yŏnhwagyŏng --- Chʻŏmpʻum myopŏp yŏnhwagyŏng --- Chŏng pŏphwagyŏng --- Dam paʼi chos padma dkar po las mos paʼi leʼu --- Fa hua ching --- Lotus de la bonne loi --- Lotus Sutra --- Miao fa lian hua jing --- Miao fa lien hua ching --- Myobŏp yŏnhwagyŏng --- Pophwagyŏng --- Saddharma-pundarîka --- Saddharmapuṇḍarīka --- Saddharmapuṇdarīka-sūtram --- Sūtra del Loto --- Tʻien pʻin miao fa lien hua ching --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japon --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Nipponkoku --- Nippon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nihon-koku --- State of Japan --- Япония --- Japani --- اليابان --- al-Yābān --- يابان --- Yābān --- Japonsko --- Giappone --- Japonia --- Japonya --- Tripitaka. Sutrapitaka. Saddharmapundarikasutra --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Congresses --- Sūtra du Lotus --- Japan - Civilization - Buddhist influence - Congresses --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

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