Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial and Thetransformation of - Contemporary Japanese Buddhis

Zusammenfassung Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This title investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Rowe, Mark Michael Rowe, Rowe Mark Michael
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780226730134
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73013-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Buddhism and Modernity; Buddhism and Modernity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Buddhism