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Practical pursuits : religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan /
The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). Practical Pursuits explores theories of personal development that were diffused in the early nineteenth century by a network of religious groups in the Edo (Tokyo) area, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
[2004]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The fertility of dead words
- Divination as cultivation
- Breathing as purification
- The parameters of learning
- Practical learning in the meditation hall
- Koji Zen
- Shifting boundaries in the sangha
- The great synthesis
- Enlightened conservatives
- The enemy within.