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First study in English on Japanese Buddhism by a distinguished scholar in the field of Religious Studies will be widely welcomed.The main focus is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day.

Produktbeschreibung
First study in English on Japanese Buddhism by a distinguished scholar in the field of Religious Studies will be widely welcomed.The main focus is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day.
Autorenporträt
Kenji Matsuo has taught the history of Japanese Buddhism at Princeton University, Beijing Foreign Language University, London University and the State University of New York. He has published sixteen books on this and related subjects in Japanese; this is his first in English. He is currently professor at Yamagata University, Japan.