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Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism /

Plotting the Prince traces the development of conceptual maps of the world created through the telling of stories about Prince Shōtoku (573?-622?), an eminent statesman who is credited with founding Buddhism in Japan. It analyzes his place in the sacred landscape and the material relics of the cult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan
  • The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia
  • Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times
  • Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place
  • The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji
  • Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.