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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2015]
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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.