Discourse and ideology in medieval Japanese Buddhism
By: Richard K. Payne, Taigen Dan Leighton.
Contributors: Payne, Richard Karl.; Leighton, Taigen Daniel.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Buddhism -- Japan -- History -- 1185-1600
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dale Wright: Metaphor and theory of cultural change : in search of skillful means for understanding Kamakura Buddhism; title: Mark Blum: The sangoku-mappō construct : Buddhism, nationalism, and history in medieval Japan; title: Fabio Rambelli:  Materiality and performativity of sacred texts in medieval Japan; title: Richard K. Payne: Awakening and language : Indic theories of language in the background of Japanese esoteric Buddhism; title: James Ford: Buddhist ceremonials (Kōshiki) and the ideological discourse of established Buddhism in early medieval Japan; title: Mark Unno: The body of time and the discourse of precepts; title: Ryūichi Abe: Myōe's mount lacka : mantra, landscape, and medieval Japanese poetics; title: Jacqueline Stone: "Not mere words" : perspectives on the language of the Lotus sutra in medieval Japan; title: Taigen Leighton: The Lotus sutra as a source of Dōgen's discourse style; title: Steven Heine: Empty-handed, but not empty-headed : Dōgen's kōan strategies; title: Eisho Nasu "Rely on the meaning, not the words" : Shinran's methodology of reading scriptures and strategy of writing of the Kyōgyōshinshō.