The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan 9780824854003

The Imperial house of Japan

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The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet 9781501735349

The Golden Yoke is a remarkable achievement. It is the first elaboration of the legal, cultural, and ideological dimensi

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Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan 9780824872533

The Ōjōyōshū, written by the monk Genshin (942–1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese reli

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Race and Migration in Imperial Japan 9781136121326

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The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan 9781942242390

The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influential period

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Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet 0801430844, 9780801430848

The Golden Yoke causes us to rethink American legal culture. The legal cosmology of Buddhist Tibet brings into question

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Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan 0674970527, 9780674970526

Movements--of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora--are central to understanding both local

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Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual 9781442674851, 1442674857

Since ritual is by definition unchanging, public festivals can disclose earlier stages of social organization. Robertson

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Golden Hours: Photographing the Light of Sunrises & Sunsets

Many photographers often find that their golden hour images rarely represent the scene they observed. Not only is the sk

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Insei Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan 1086–1185 9780231884471

Explains how and why abdicated sovereigns emerged as important political figures in the late Heian period of Japan and r

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