The religious traditions of Japan, 500-1600
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The religious traditions of Japan, 500-1600
Cambridge University Press, 2005
- : hardback
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 448-461) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Richard Bowring describes in outline the development of Japanese religious thought and practice from the introduction of writing to the point at which medieval attitudes gave way to a distinctive pre-modern culture, a change that brought an end to the dominance of religious institutions. A wide range of approaches using the resources of art, history, social and intellectual history, as well as doctrine is brought to bear on the subject. The result is as full a picture as possible of the richness of the Japanese tradition as it succeeded in holding together on the one hand Buddhism, with its sophisticated intellectual structures, and on the other hand the disparate local cults that eventually achieved a kind of unity under the rubric of Shinto. An understanding of this process of constant and at times difficult interaction is essential to a deeper appreciation of Japan's history and its cultural achievements.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Arrival of Buddhism and Its Effects (c.538-800): 1. The introduction of Buddhism
- 2. Creating a dynasty
- 3. Buddhism and the early state
- 4. Monuments at Nara
- Part II. From Saicho to the Destruction of Todaiji (800-1180): 5. The beginnings of a 'Japanese' Buddhism: Tendai
- 6. The beginnings of a 'Japanese' Buddhism: Shingon
- 7. Buddhism and the state in Heian Japan
- 8. Shrine and state in Heian Japan
- 9. The rise of devotionalism
- 10. A time for strife
- Part III. From the Destruction of Todaiji to the Fall of Godaigo (1180-1330): 11. For and against exclusive practice of the nenbutsu
- 12. Religious culture of the early 'middle ages'
- 13. Chan Buddhism
- 14. Zen Buddhism
- 15. Reform from within and without
- 16. The emergence of Shinto
- 17. Taking stock
- Part IV. From the Fall of Godaigo to the Death of Nobunaga (1330-1582): 18. Two rival courts
- 19. Muromachi Zen
- 20. The end of the medieval
- 21. Appendix: reading Shingon's two mandala.
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