Japanese Temple Buddhism
Subtitle: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: August 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780824829674
Subjects: Philosophy; General; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Priests, Buddhist; Buddhism - History; 1945-; Buddhism; Japan; Office
Description: Stephen Covell addresses fully contemporary Buddhist life and institutions - topics often overlooked in the conflict between the rhetoric of renunciation and the practices of clerical marriage and householding that characterise much of Buddhism in today's Japan.