From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan: 50 (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 50) - Tapa dura

Quinter, David

 
9789004293397: From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan: 50 (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 50)
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ISBN 10: 9004293396 ISBN 13: 9789004293397
Editorial: Brill, 2015

Sinopsis

In From Outcasts to Emperors, David Quinter illuminates the Shingon Ritsu movement founded by the charismatic monk Eison (1201–90) at Saidaiji in Nara, Japan. The book’s focus on Eison and his disciples’ involvement in the cult of Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva reveals their innovative synthesis of Shingon esotericism, Buddhist discipline (Ritsu; Sk. vinaya), icon and temple construction, and social welfare activities as the cult embraced a spectrum of supporters, from outcasts to warrior and imperial rulers. In so doing, the book redresses typical portrayals of “Kamakura Buddhism” that cast Eison and other Nara Buddhist leaders merely as conservative reformers, rather than creative innovators, amid the dynamic religious and social changes of medieval Japan.

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Acerca del autor

David Quinter, Ph.D. (2006), Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Alberta. He has published eight articles on Buddhism, including “Localizing Strategies: Eison and the Shōtoku Taishi Cult,” Monumenta Nipponica 69/2 (2014).

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Editorial
Brill
Año de publicación
2015
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
9004293396
ISBN 13 
9789004293397
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Número de páginas
354
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