Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan 9780824863999
The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (160
152 90 7MB
English Pages 400 Year 2004
Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONVENTIONS
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Fertility of Dead Words
Chapter 2. Divination as Cultivation
Chapter 3. Breathing as Purification
Chapter 4. The Parameters of Learning
Chapter 5. Practical Learning in the Meditation Hall
Chapter 6. Koji Zen
Chapter 7. Shifting Boundaries in the Sangha
Chapter 8. The Great Synthesis
Chapter 9. Enlightened Conservatives
Chapter 10. The Enemy Within
AFTERWORD
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONVENTIONS
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Fertility of Dead Words
Chapter 2. Divination as Cultivation
Chapter 3. Breathing as Purification
Chapter 4. The Parameters of Learning
Chapter 5. Practical Learning in the Meditation Hall
Chapter 6. Koji Zen
Chapter 7. Shifting Boundaries in the Sangha
Chapter 8. The Great Synthesis
Chapter 9. Enlightened Conservatives
Chapter 10. The Enemy Within
AFTERWORD
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
- Author / Uploaded
- Janine Anderson Sawada
