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Tracing the Itinerant Path : Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan /

This study introduces the jishū nuns who participated alongside monks as fellow practitioners - not as wives, daughters, or mothers. They were partners in a Pure Land religious school devoted to encompassing the world with the name Amida Buddha through their continuous chanting of the nembutsu.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Griffiths, Caitilin J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Female leaders and gendered spaces
  • Itinerant path : women on the road
  • Fourteenth-century mixed-gender practice halls
  • Practice halls of Kyoto : urban Jishū nuns
  • The Yugyō School : fifteenth century and beyond.