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Original enlightenment and the transformation of medieval Japanese Buddhism /
"Original enlightenment thought (hongaku shiso) dominated Buddhist intellectual circles throughout Japan's medieval period. Enlightenment, this discourse claims, is neither a goal to be achieved nor a potential to be realized but the true status of all things."--Jacket
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu, Hawaii :
University of Hawai'i Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;
no. 12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Original enlightenment thought (hongaku shiso) dominated Buddhist intellectual circles throughout Japan's medieval period. Enlightenment, this discourse claims, is neither a goal to be achieved nor a potential to be realized but the true status of all things."--Jacket "Jacqueline Stone's study moves beyond the treatment of the original enlightenment doctrine as abstract philosophy to explore its historical dimension. Drawing on a wealth of medieval primary sources and modern Japanese scholarship, it places this discourse in its ritual, institutional, and social contexts, illuminating its importance to the maintenance of traditions of lineage and the secret transmission of knowledge that characterized medieval Japanese elite culture. It sheds new light on interpretive strategies employed in premodern Japanese Buddhist texts, an area that hitherto has received little attention."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 544 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-521) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824840501 082484050X |