The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan 0520056221, 9780520056220

The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520342675

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The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520342675

"A masterly book . . . will prove of great assistance to a student of Japanese literature and thought from the elev

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Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan [Course Book ed.] 9781400862948

According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering o

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Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan 9780824841911

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Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan 0824851501, 9780824851507

Scholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina. Many o

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The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism 9780824846541

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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts 9780226132655

In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in

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The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism 9780824861148

This is a study of visual and textual images of the mythical creature tengu from the late Heian (897–1185) to the late K

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The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan 9780824837556

This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of

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The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan 9781400832590

Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, cont

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