Jewel in the ashes
Subtitle: Buddha relics and power in early medieval Japan
By: Brian D. Ruppert.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ;; 188
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Subjects: Gautama Buddha -- Relics.
Description: "This study addresses the relationship between the veneration of Buddha relics and the appropriation of power in early medieval Japan. Focusing on the ninth to the fourteenth centuries, it analyzes the ways in which relics and the wish-fulfilling jewels constructed of relics functioned as material media for the interactions of Buddhist clerics, the imperial family, lay aristocrats, women in the imperial and Fujiwara lineages, and warrior society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-488) and index.