Hokkeji and the reemergence of female monastic orders in premodern Japan /
Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort Komyo (701-760), possesses a history that in some ways is bigger than itself. Its development is emblematic of larger patterns in the history of female monasticism in Japan. In Hokkeji...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Multiple |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;
no. 23. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pilgrimage, popular devotion, and the reemergence of Hokkeji
- Envisioning nuns: views from the court
- Envisioning nuns: views from the male monastic order
- Hokkeji's place in Eison's Vinaya revival movement
- Social and economic life at Hokkeji and its branch convents
- Ritual life at medieval Hokkeji
- Representations of women and gender in Ritsu literature.