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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.


