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The Halo of Golden Light : Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan /

In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the state and the Buddhist community during the Heian period (794-1185), Asuka Sango details the complex ways in which the emperor and other elite ruling groups employed Buddhist ritual t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sango, Asuka, 1976- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The emperor and the Golden light sutra
  • Buddhist debate and the religious policy of the Heian state
  • Clerical promotion: domination, resistance, and alternatives
  • Buddhist rituals and the reconstitution of the Ritsuryo polity
  • When rites go wrong: ritual and political conflict
  • Ritual imitation and the retired emperor: reinventing imperial religious authority.