The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion /
Scheid, Bernhard,1960-
Teeuwen, Mark.
London ; New York : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Japan's culture of secrecy from a comparative perspective / Mark Teeuwen -- Secrets and secrecy in the study of religion : comparative views from the ancient world / Albert de Jong -- The Problem of secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism / Ronald M. Davidson -- Myth and secrecy in Tang-period Tantric Buddhism / Martin Lehnert -- Secrecy in Japanese esoteric Buddhism / Fabio Rambelli -- Reconsidering the taxonomy of the esoteric : hermeneutical and ritual practices of the lotus sutra / Lucia Dolce -- Knowing vs. owning a secret : secrecy in medieval Japan, as seen through the sokui kanjo enthronement unction / Mark Teeuwen -- Secrecy, sex and apocrypha : remarks on some paradoxical phenomena / Nobumi Iyanaga -- Esotericism in noh commentaries and plays : Konparu Zenchiku's Meishuku shu and Kakitsubata / Susan Blakeley Klein -- The elephant in the room : the cult of secrecy in Japanese Tantrism / Bernard Faure -- Myths, rites, and Icons : three views of a secret / Kadoya Atsushi -- Two modes of secrecy in the Nihon shoki transmission / Bernhard Scheid -- When secrecy ends : the Tokugawa reformation of Tendai Buddhism and its implications / William M. Bodiford -- Hiding the shoguns : secrecy and the nature of political authority in Tokugawa Japan / Anne Walthall -- "Esoteric" and "public" in the late Mito thought / Kate Wildman Nakai.
Secrecy
Secrecy
Secrecy
Tantric Buddhism