From Outcasts to Emperors - Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan

In From Outcasts to Emperors, David Quinter illuminates the Shingon Ritsu movement founded by the charismatic Buddhist monk Eison (1201-90) at Saidaiji in Nara, Japan, with a focus on Eison and his disciples' involvement in the cult of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī.

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David Quinter, Ph.D. (2006), Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Alberta. He has published eight articles on Buddhism, including "Localizing Strategies: Eison and the Shōtoku Taishi Cult," Monumenta Nipponica 69/2 (2014).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Quinter
• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 12.06.2015
• EAN: 9789004293397
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29339-7
• Seiten: 354
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 680 g
• Serie: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen