Hokkeji and the reemergence of female monastic orders in premodern Japan
By: Lori Meeks.
Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism -- 23
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824833947
Subjects: Buddhist nuns -- Japan -- Hokkeji (Nara-shi); Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women -- Japan -- Hokkeji (Nara-shi); Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- Japan -- Hokkeji (Nara-shi); Hokkeji (Nara-shi, Japan) -- Religion
Notes: "A Kuroda Institute Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pilgrimage, popular devotion, and the reemergence of Hokkeji; title: Envisioning nuns: views from the court; title: Envisioning nuns: views from the male monastic order; title: Hokkeji's place in Eison's Vinaya revival movement; title: Social and economic life at Hokkeji and its branch convents; title: Ritual life at medieval Hokkeji; title: Representations of women and gender in Ritsu literature.