A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Deal, William E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Book
  • On Translation
  • Conventions
  • References
  • 1 Early Historical Contexts (Protohistory to 645)
  • Buddhism's Transmission to Yamato: The Nihon shoki Narrative
  • Asuka Buddhism (552-645)
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • 2 Ancient Buddhism (645-950)
  • Hakuhō-Period Buddhism (645-710)
  • Nara-Period Buddhism (710-794)
  • Early Heian Period Buddhism (794-950)
  • Women in Ancient Japanese Buddhism
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • 3 Early Medieval Buddhism(950-1300): The Dawn of Medieval Society and Related Changes in Japanese Buddhist Culture
  • Middle Heian- and Late Heian-Period Buddhism (950-1185)
  • Early and Middle Kamakura-Period Buddhism (1185-1300)
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • 4 Late Medieval Buddhism (1300-1467): New Buddhisms, Buddhist Learning, Dissemination and the Fall into Chaos
  • Late Kamakura-Period and Early Muromachi-Period Buddhism
  • Women and Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • 5 Buddhism and the Transition to the Modern Era (1467-1800)
  • Late Muromachi-Period Buddhism (1467-1600)
  • Early and Middle Edo-Period Buddhism (1600-1800)
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • 6 Modern Buddhism (1800-1945)
  • Buddhism in the Transition to the Modern Period
  • Meiji Restoration
  • Meiji-Period Anti-Buddhist Sentiments
  • Buddhist Responses to Anti-Buddhist Sentiments
  • Japanese Buddhists Overseas: Scholars and Missionaries
  • The Study of Buddhism as an Academic Discipline
  • Buddhist New Religions
  • Japanese Buddhism and the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945)
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • 7 Buddhism Since 1945
  • Buddhism in the Allied Occupation
  • Buddhist New Religions in Postwar Japan
  • Buddhist New New Religions
  • The Kyoto School
  • Critical Buddhism
  • Women in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
  • Traditional Buddhist Lineages in Contemporary Japan
  • Contemporary Buddhist Rituals: Monastic and Lay
  • Buddhism in Contemporary Japanese Culture
  • Prospects
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Character Glossary
  • Index
  • End User License Agreement