Bonds of the Dead - Temples, Burial, Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Informationen zum Autor Mark Michael Rowe is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. Klappentext 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. 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: Rowe, Mark Rowe, Mark Michael Rowe, Rowe Mark Michael
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780226730158
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73015-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Buddhism and Modernity; Buddhism and Modernity; Buddhism and Modernity (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Buddhism