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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: David Quinter
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2015
• EAN: 9789004293397
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29339-7
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions