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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


