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Books on: buddhist temple and japan

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Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan

Book by Janet R. Goodwin; University of Hawaii Press, 1994

Subjects:

Buddhism--Japan--History--1185-1600, Buddhist Giving, Buddhist Temple Finance--Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Vagabonds BUDDHIST TEMPLES AND POPULAR...IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN Janet R...and Vagabonds: Buddhist temples and popular...in medieval Japan / Janet R...1547-5 1. Buddhist temple finance-- Japan. 2. Buddhist...
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The Buddhist Sects of Japan: Their History, Philosophical Doctrines and Sanctuaries

Book by E. Steinilber-Oberlin, Kuni Matsuo, Marc Logé; George Allen & Unwin, 1938

Subjects:

Buddhism--Japan, Buddhism--Sacred Books--Selection, Buddhist Sects, Japan--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...2. A Buddhist priest explains...penetrating into the temple of Horyuji...sanctuary of Japan and ancient...Oh, that Buddhist calm! Almost...the oldest temple in Japan, the ancient...the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan. This porch...
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Buddhist Hagiographies in Early Japan: Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition

Book by Jonathan Morris Augustine; RoutledgeCourzon, 2004

Subjects:

Gy?Oki--668-749, Priests, Buddhist--Japan--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as sacred ...
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Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as sacred objects. In Japan, it was believed that those who read the biographies of lofty monks would acquire merit. Since hagiographies were written or compiled by 'believers', the line between fantasy and reality was often obscured. This study of the bodhisattva Gyoki - regarded as the monk who started the largest social welfare movement in Japan - illustrates how Japanese Buddhist hagiographers chose to regard a single monk's charitable activities as a miraculous achievement that shaped the course of Japanese history.
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Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

Book by Paula Kane Robinson Arai; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Buddhist Nuns--Japan, Monastic And Religious Life (Zen Buddhism)--Japan, Monastic And Religious Life Of Women--Japan, Religious Life--S*Ot*Osh*U

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to ...
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In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to the present day. Drawing on her fieldwork among the Soto nuns, Arai demonstrates that the lives of many of these women embody classical Buddhist ideals. They have chosen to lead a strictly disciplined monastic life over against successful careers and the unconstrained contemporary secular lifestyle. In this, and other respects, they can be shown to stand in stark contrast to their male counterparts.
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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia - Vol. 1

Book by Marylin Martin Rhie; Brill, 1999

Subjects:

Art, Buddhist--Asia, Central, Art, Buddhist--China, Art, Central Asian, Art, Chinese

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Buddhist cave temple art appears in...features of late Han Buddhist iconography...and perhaps even Japan. So far not...a Plan of the Buddhist Temple Site, Airtam...vestibule of the Buddhist temple, Airtam Fig...

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Journal Articles on: buddhist temple and japan

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Switching Sites and Identities: The Founder's Statue at the Buddhist Temple Korin'in

Journal article by Gregory P. Levine; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001

Subjects:

Jofu, Shokei--Monuments, statues, etc., Zen Buddhism--Monuments, statues, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Buddhist temple Korinin...unstudied Buddhist portrait...produced in Japan during the...at the Zen Buddhist temple Korinin in...126) In Japan, appropriation...hakogaki). (127) Buddhist icons, such...image at the temple Muroji in...
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Research on Buddhist Nuns in Japan, Past and Present

Journal article by Monika Wacker; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 64, 2005

Subjects:

Art by Buddhist Nuns: Treasures from the Imperial Convents of Japan Area, Books--Book reviews, Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan--Book reviews, Special Exhibition: Women and Buddhism (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...review. While conducting research for my PhD thesis in Japan, I heard of a friend staying at a convent in Kyoto during...the first half of the 1990s, when I learned that the Buddhist temple on that island was inhabited by a nun and her husband...
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Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth-Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at Kanshinji

Journal article by Cynthea J. Bogel; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, 2002

Subjects:

Buddhism and art--9th century, Buddhists--Monuments, statues, etc., Icons--Japan, Japan--Religion, Ritual--Japan, Statues--Religious aspects, Temples, Buddhist--9th century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...837 as a temple of the Shingon Esoteric Buddhist tradition...Korea, and Japan. Strictly...Esoteric Buddhist schools in Japan, the other...to assess Buddhist statues and...Japanese temple history and...and the Japan Foundation...
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Images, Legends, Politics, and the Origin of the Great Xiangguo Monastery in Kaifeng: A Case-Study of the Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in Medieval China

Journal article by Jinhua Chen; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005

Subjects:

Buddhist shrines--Political aspects, Buddhist shrines--Social aspects, Buddhist temples--Political aspects, Buddhist temples--Social aspects, Chinese history--Religious aspects, Kaifeng, China--Buildings and facilities, Kaifeng, China--Religious aspects, Temples, Buddhist--Political aspects, Temples, Buddhist--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Buddhist mountain." Not only mountain temples/monasteries, but also cosmopolitan monasteries...emerged as arguably the most important Buddhist center in China. During the Tang dynasty...foreign monks and artists from Central Asia, Japan (e.g., Jojin TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN...
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Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism: Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in a Religiously Plural World

Journal article by Taitetsu Unno, Paul O. Ingram; Buddhist-Christian Studies, 2002

Subjects:

Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism: Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in a Religiously Plural World (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...comprehensive Shin Buddhist theology. If such...place outside of Japan. The symposium held...contemporary Pure Land Buddhist faith and practice...in contemporary Japan has lost its relevance...different for Pure Land Buddhists outside Japan. Thus in their own...

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Magazine Articles on: buddhist temple and japan

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The Eighty-Eight Temples: Pilgrimages Were among the Earliest Forms of Historical Travelling, and They Remain Popular in Many Parts of the World. Alex Koller Tries Japan's Most Famous Buddhist Pilgrimage

Magazine article by Alex Koller; History Today, Vol. 57, November 2007

Subjects:

Buddhism--Social aspects, Japan--Religious aspects, Lamaism--Social aspects, Pilgrimages--History, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--History, Religion--Social aspects, Religious beliefs--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...comprise Japan. It is also...eighty-eight Buddhist temples, connected...Buddhism reached Japan from Korea...in large temple-monasteries...unordained Buddhist ascetics...the anti-Buddhist policies...the Shikoku temples, many of...
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A Japanese Temple Bell in Ireland

Magazine article by Chris Arthur; Contemporary Review, Vol. 265, September 1994

Subjects:

Bells--History, Ireland--Antiquities, Japan--History

Collections: Entire Library

...be made and a passage from that great Buddhist scripture, the Lotus Sutra. How, when...to continue the war, confiscated many temple artefacts. Temple bells, flower vases...be morning, and in a small village in Japan someone I have never met will be making...
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Eye on Edo: Art in Japan 1615--1868

Magazine article by Scarlet Cheng; World and I, Vol. 14, February 1999

Subjects:

Art, Art objects, Japanese--Exhibitions, Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868, Feudalism--Japan, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese art objects--Exhibitions, Shogunate--Japan, Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Collections: Entire Library

...saw the rise of travel throughout Japan, usually in groups. This included...religious pilgrimages to faraway temples and shrines. Silkscreen prints...to the oldest and most venerated Buddhist temple in the city. The edge of the open...
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The Rooftop of Japan

Magazine article by Stuart Wasserman; World and I, Vol. 13, February 1998

Subjects:

Nagano, Japan--Description and travel

Collections: Entire Library

...people visit the temple each year, particularly because Zenko-ji is open to women and Buddhists from all different sects. And it is one of the oldest temples in Japan, first opening its doors in the sixth century. The building itself is in its eleventh...
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Images of the Floating World: The Idea of Japan

Magazine article by Jeff Humphries; The Antioch Review, Vol. 53, Fall 1995

Subjects:

Japan--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fleeting, and involving an intimation of the Buddhist view of the world as a collection of empty...Companion). So it is not by accident that Japan should be the object of all this western...there and gold is so common that all the temple roofs are covered with it, and the tables...

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Newspaper Articles on: buddhist temple and japan

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Promise Keepers Inspirational in Japan: Christian Men's Group Will Try to Emulate Success, despite Cultural Obstacles

Newspaper article by Willis Witter; The Washington Times, October 28, 1997

Subjects:

Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and 200 employees. One obstacle to Christianity in Japan stems from the religious trappings of Japanese culture...day-trippers leave Tokyo for casual, almost festive visits to Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. They throw money into offering...
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Once a Feared Gangster, He Worshipped Money and Power. Now This Man Has a New God. and Has Turned His Back on Crime to Be a Buddhist Monk; Ex-Criminal Uses His Glasgow Gangland Connections to Find Funding for the School He Runs for Orphans in Cambodia Where He Attempts to Atone for His 'Wasted' Existence

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 4, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Campbell went on a weeklong meditation course at a Buddhist temple in Battambang, in the northwest of the country. He said...electrical goods from Hong Kong, then hashish from Nepal to Japan and occasionally to Australia. He recalled: I would...
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Buddhist Priest Also Teaches at School

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 23, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...15 as an exchange student and met with Buddhist priests. A yearlong battle with lymphatic...Momma, a former exchange student from Japan, were married. He turned to social activism...pilgrimage, walking 900 miles and visiting 88 temples. "It lit a fire in my gut," he says...
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TRAVEL: Track Down the Real Japan; Why Osaka Will Blow You Away in Zen Seconds Flat

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 25, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with Mr Cruise at the Zen Buddhist temple of Engyoji in Himeji. I was in Japan in June to see what sights...5 million. Unusually for Japan, all the streets have names...buildings and some 1,900 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. I visited...
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TRAVEL: Track Down the Real Japan; Why Osaka Will Blow You Away in Zen Seconds Flat

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 25, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with Mr Cruise at the Zen Buddhist temple of Engyoji in Himeji. I was in Japan in June to see what sights...5 million. Unusually for Japan, all the streets have names...buildings and some 1,900 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. I visited...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: buddhist temple and japan

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Temple , Edifice of Worship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...dwelling only in its size and richness. Besides the temple a Buddhist monastery includes a relic shrine, a pagoda, a library, and quarters for the monks. In Japan the temple harmonizes with the picturesque landscape...
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Kokubunji

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...KOKUBUNJI kokoo boonje, city (1990 pop. 100,982), Tokyo Metropolis, central Honshu, Japan. It is a suburb of Tokyo and is noted for its Kokubunji (Buddhist) temple founded in 1588. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Kanonji

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...city (1990 pop. 45,500), Kagawa prefecture, E Shikoku, Japan, on the Hiuchi Sea. It is a religious center and agricultural market noted for its Kanonji (Buddhist) Temple. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth...
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Kisarazu

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1990 pop. 123,433), Chiba prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. It is a residential and industrial suburb of Tokyo noted for its Shojoji (Buddhist) temple. Chemicals, electrical machinery, and iron are among...
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Matsushima

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...town (1990 pop. 17,431), Miyagi prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on Ishinomaki Bay. It is a tourist center for the hundreds...islets in the bay. One island is the site of the noted Buddhist temple of Zuiganji (founded 828). ____________________ The...

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