Discourse and ideology in medieval Japanese Buddhism
By: edited by Richard K. Payne and Taigen Dan Leighton.
Contributors: Payne, Richard Karl.; Leighton, Taigen Daniel.
Series: Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Buddhism -- Japan -- History -- 1185-1600.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metaphor and theory of cultural change : in search of skillful means for understanding Kamakura Buddhism; title: The sangoku-mapp*o construct : Buddhism, nationalism, and history in medieval Japan; title: Texts, talismans, and jewels: the Reikiki and the performativity of sacred texts in medieval Japan; title: Awakening and language : Indic theories of language in the background of Japanese esoteric Buddhism; title: Buddhist ceremonials (K*oshiki) and the ideological discourse of established Buddhism in early medieval Japan; title: The body of time and the discourse of precepts; title: Swords, words, and deformity: on Myoe's eccentricity; title: "Not mere written words" : perspectives on the language of the Lotus sutra in medieval Japan; title: The Lotus sutra as a source of D*ogen's discourse style; title: Empty-handed, but not empty-headed : D*ogen's k*oan strategies; title: "Rely on the meaning, not the words" : Shinran's methodology and strategy for reading scriptures and writing the Ky*ogy*oshinsh*o.