Mountain Buddhism and the Emergence of a Buddhist Cosmic Imaginary in Ancient Japan
This article attempts to clarify the emergence of a Buddhist "cosmic imaginary," or a generally shared understanding of the natural world, in early Heian Japan. Through examination of poems preserved in the 751 Kaifūso and the 759 Man'yoshū, it shows how this cosmic imaginary first to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
2018
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-36 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ World view
/ Understanding of nature
/ Universism
/ Buddhism
/ Mountain
/ History 650-850
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia NBA Dogmatics TF Early Middle Ages |
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Emperors
B Wisdom B Buddhism B Meditation B Monks B Religious Studies B Japanese culture B Poetry B Shintoism B Treatises |
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