The seven tengu scrolls : evil and the rhetoric of legitimacy in medieval Japanese Buddhism /

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This is a study of visual and textual images of the mythical creature tengu from the late Heian (897-1185) to the late Kamakura (1185-1333) periods. Popularly depicted as half-bird, half-human creatures with beaks or long noses, wings, and human bodies, tengu today are commonly seen as guardian spir...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wakabayashi, Haruko Nishioka, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2012.
©2012
Subjects:
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
Tengu no sōshi.
Tengu no sōshi
1185-1600
Buddhism > Japan > History > 1185-1600.
Good and evil > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Tengu.
Bouddhisme > Japon > Histoire > 1185-1600.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
ART > Asian.
Good and evil > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Buddhism
Tengu
Emaki
Das Böse
Buddhismus
Japan
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From malign spirit to manifestation of ma
  • Tengudō, the realm of tengu
  • Structure and relationship to existing variant scrolls
  • Critique of Kamakura Buddhism
  • The Onjōji scroll and the question of authorship
  • The definition of ma.

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