Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Herausgeber: Payne, Richard K.; Leighton, Taigen Dan

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Produktbeschreibung

The medieval period of Japanese religious history is commonly known as one in which there was a radical transformation of the religious culture. This book suggests an alternate approach to understanding the dynamics of that transformation. One main topic of analysis focuses on what Buddhism - its practices and doctrines, its traditions and institutions - meant for medieval Japanese peoples themselves. This is achieved by using the notions of discourse and ideology and juxtaposing various topics on shared linguistic practices and discursive worlds of medieval Japanese Buddhism. Collating contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of Buddhist Studies, the editors have created an important work that builds on preliminary work on rethinking the importance and meaning of Kamakura Buddhism published recently in English, and adds greatly to the debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780415544450
• ISBN-10: 0415544459
• Artikelnr.: 26488791

Autorenporträt

Richard K. Payne is Dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He was convener of the doctoral program in the Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions from 1996 to 2002. His most recent publications include Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha, with Kenneth Tanaka, and Tantric Buddhism in East Asia. Taigen Dan Leighton is currently Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California. He received his PhD from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Richard K. Payne with Taigen Dan Leighton 2. Metaphor and
Theory of Cultural Change: In Search of Skillful Means for Understanding
Kamakura Buddhism Dale S. Wright 3. The Sangoku-Mappo Construct: Buddhism,
Nationalism, and History in Medieval Japan Mark L. Blum 4. Texts,
Talismans, and Jewels: The Reikiki and the Performativity of Sacred Texts
in Medieval Japan Fabio Rambelli 5. Awakening and Language: Indic Theories
of Language in the Background of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism Richard K.
Payne 6. Buddhist Ceremonials (Koshiki) and the Ideological Discourse of
Established Buddhism in Early Medieval Japan James L. Ford 7. The Body of
Time and the Discourse of Precepts Mark T. Unno 8. Swords, Words, and
Deformity: On Myoe's Eccentricity Ryuichi Abé 9. "Not Mere Written Words":
Perspectives on the Language of the Lotus Sutra in Medieval Japan
Jacqueline I. Stone 10. The Lotus Sutra as a Source of Dogen's Discourse
Style Taigen Dan Leighton 11. Empty-Handed, but not Empty-Headed: Dogen's
Koan Strategies Steven Heine 12. "Rely on the Meaning, not on the Words":
Shinran's Methodology and Strategy for Reading Scriptures and Writing the
Kyogyoshinsho Eisho Nasu