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This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity. In the tradition of the Princeton Readings in Religions series, the collection presents documents (legends and miracle tales, hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons, reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic writings), most of which have been translated for the first time here, that serve to illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice. George Tanabe provides a lucid introduction to the "patterned confusion" of Japan's religious practices. He has ordered the anthology's forty-five readings under the categories of "Ethical Practices," "Ritual Practices," and "Institutional Practices," moving beyond the traditional classifications of chronology, religious traditions (Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc.), and sects, and illuminating the actual orientation of people who engage in religious practices. Within the anthology's three broad categories, subdivisions address the topics of social values, clerical and lay precepts, gods, spirits, rituals of realization, faith, court and emperor, sectarian founders, wizards, and heroes, orthopraxis and orthodoxy, and special places. Dating from the eighth through the twentieth centuries, the documents are revealed to be open to various and evolving interpretations, their meanings dependent not only on how they are placed in context but also on how individual researchers read them. Each text is preceded by an introductory explanation of the text's essence, written by its translator. Instructors and students will find these explications useful starting points for their encounters with the varied worlds of practice within which the texts interact with readers and changing contexts. Religions of Japan in Practice is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. It is an indispensable sourcebook for scholars, students, and general readers seeking engagement with the fertile "ordered disorder" of religious practice in Japan.

Japan --- Japon --- Religion. --- Religion --- 299.52 --- J1700 --- Godsdiensten van Japan. Shintoisme --- Japan: Religion -- general and history --- 299.52 Godsdiensten van Japan. Shintoisme --- Japan. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Amida Buddha. --- Avalokitesvara. --- Bodhidharma. --- Buddha-nature. --- Christianity. --- Chuang-tzu. --- Confucianism. --- Eison. --- Empress Suiko. --- Esoteric Buddhism. --- Genshin. --- Heart Sutra. --- Hōnen. --- Ise Shrine. --- Jōdo school. --- Kūkai. --- Lotus Sutra. --- Nichiren. --- Shingon Buddhism. --- Taoism. --- Tendai Buddhism. --- Uan Dōnin. --- Zaō. --- ancestors. --- dreams. --- filial piety. --- healing. --- kami. --- karma. --- mappō. --- miracles. --- nembutsu. --- original enlightenment. --- precepts. --- repentance. --- yamabushi. --- Śākyamuni. --- Japan - Religion --- Jepun --- Japan: Religion in general --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

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According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering of Buddhist philosophical ideas through artistic imagery than it is the development of concepts and expressions in a virtually inseparable unity. By challenging those who consider religion to be the primary phenomenon and art the secondary arena for the apprehension of religious meanings, these essays reveal the collapse of other dichotomies as well. Touching on works produced at every social level, they explore a fascinating set of connections within Japanese culture and move to re-envision such usual distinctions as religion and art, sacred and secular, Buddhism and Shinto, theory and substance, elite and popular, and even audience and artist. The essays range from visual and literary hagiographies to No drama, to Sermon-Ballads, to a painting of the Nirvana of Vegetables. The contributors to the volume are James H. Foard, Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Frank Hoff, Laura S. Kaufman, William R. LaFleur, Susan Matisoff, Barbara Ruch, Yoshiaki Shimizu, and Royall Tyler.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Buddhism and art --- Buddhism in literature. --- Japanese literature --- Art and Buddhism --- Art --- Buddhist art --- History and criticism. --- Acala. --- Amaterasu. --- Anne Bradstreet. --- Arahitogami. --- Benkei. --- Benzaiten. --- Biography. --- Bodhi. --- Bodhidharma. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddha-nature. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism and Christianity. --- Buddhism in Japan. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist philosophy. --- Buddhist poetry. --- Calligraphy. --- Chion-in. --- D. T. Suzuki. --- Deity. --- Demonology. --- Devadatta. --- Dogen. --- Earl Miner. --- Edo period. --- Esoteric Buddhism. --- Fujiwara. --- Gagaku. --- Gautama Buddha. --- Genji Monogatari Emaki. --- Genshin. --- Gongen. --- Guanyin. --- Hachiman. --- Hagiography. --- Hayashi Razan. --- Honji suijaku. --- How It Happened. --- Illustration. --- Impermanence. --- Ippen. --- Iris Murdoch. --- Itako. --- Ivan Morris. --- Japanese aesthetics. --- Japanese art. --- Japanese painting. --- Japanese poetry. --- Kaibara Ekken. --- Kegon. --- Ki no Tsurayuki. --- Kobayashi Issa. --- Kojiro. --- Kokugaku. --- Kshitigarbha. --- Kukai. --- Liminality. --- Literature. --- Lotus Sutra. --- Mahasthamaprapta. --- Mahayana. --- Masao Abe. --- Matsuo Basho. --- Metempsychosis. --- Mircea Eliade. --- Murasaki Shikibu. --- Narrative. --- Nichiren. --- Nyorai. --- Onryo. --- Oracle. --- Parinirvana. --- Parody. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Poetry. --- Preta. --- Religion. --- Rennyo. --- Renunciation. --- Royall Tyler (academic). --- Setsuwa. --- Shinbutsu bunri. --- Shingon Buddhism. --- Shinran. --- Shinto. --- Shoshin. --- State Shinto. --- Tachikawa-ryu. --- Taima Mandala. --- Tendai. --- Tengu. --- Tenjin (kami). --- The Tale of the Heike. --- Traditional story. --- Upaya. --- Vipassana. --- Yamabushi. --- Zen master. --- Zoku.