Genshin`s Ojoyoshu and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan, Robert F. Rhodes

Автор: Robert F. Rhodes
Название: Genshin`s Ojoyoshu and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan
ISBN: 0824879287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824879280
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Описание: The Ojoyoshu, written by the monk Genshin (942-1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese religions. In this first book in English on the Ojoyoshu in more than forty years, Robert Rhodes draws on the latest scholarship to shed new light on the text, its author, and the tumultuous age in which it was written.

Автор: Stockdale
Название: Imagining Exile In Heian Japan
ISBN: 0824839838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824839833
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Описание: This compelling volume is the first in English to explore the rich resonance of exile in the cultural life of the Japanese court. Rejecting the notion that such narratives merely reflect a timeless literary archetype, Jonathan Stockdale shows instead that in every case exile emerged from particular historical circumstances.

Автор: Asuka Sango
Название: The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan
ISBN: 0824879317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824879310
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Описание: In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the state and the Buddhist community during the Heian period (794–1185), Asuka Sango details the complex ways in which the emperor and other elite ruling groups employed Buddhist ritual to legitimate their authority. Although considered a descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasu, the emperor used Buddhist idiom, particularly the ideal king as depicted in the Golden Light Sutra, to express his right to rule. Sango's book is the first to focus on the ideals presented in the sutra to demonstrate how the ritual enactment of imperial authority was essential to justifying political power. These ideals became the basis of a number of court-sponsored rituals, the most important of which was the emperor's Misai-e Assembly. Sango deftly traces the changes in the assembly's format and status throughout the era and the significant shifts in the Japanese polity that mirrored them. In illuminating the details of these changes, she challenges dominant scholarly models that presume the gradual decline of the political and liturgical influence of the emperor over the course of the era. She also compels a reconsideration of Buddhism during the Heian as “state Buddhism” by showing that monks intervened in creating the state's policy toward the religion to their own advantage. Her analysis further challenges the common view that Buddhism of the time was characterized by the growth of private esoteric rites at the expense of exoteric doctrinal learning.The Halo of Golden Light draws on a wide range of primary sources—from official annals and diaries written by courtiers and monks to ecclesiastical records and Buddhist texts—many of them translated or analyzed for the first time in English. In so doing, the work brings to the surface surprising facets in the negotiations between religious ideas and practices and the Buddhist community and the state.