The Buddhist Affirmation of Poetry and Locating a Thirteenth-century "Fugen kōshiki" in Liturgical Literature
This article examines the authorship and dating of a Fugen kōshiki that is found in a mid-Kamakura-era manuscript transcribed by the Tōdaiji prelate Sōshō. It locates this kōshiki in its historical context through a comparison with related works and particularly Chōken's Waka mandokoro hyōbyaku...
| Published in: | Japanese journal of religious studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
2016
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| In: |
Japanese journal of religious studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Samantabhadra, Bodhisattva
/ Chōken 1126-1203
/ Kōshiki
/ Waka
/ Apologia
/ History 1150-1200
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia NCB Personal ethics TG High Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Abbots
B Buddhism B Religious Studies B Anthologies B Authorship attribution B Couplets B Repentance B Hymns |
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| Summary: | This article examines the authorship and dating of a Fugen kōshiki that is found in a mid-Kamakura-era manuscript transcribed by the Tōdaiji prelate Sōshō. It locates this kōshiki in its historical context through a comparison with related works and particularly Chōken's Waka mandokoro hyōbyaku. The article concludes that Chōken was likely the author of the kōshiki as well. The kōshiki, which has not been published nor received scholarly attention in either Japan or the West, contains a clear defense of the act of composing poetry in opposition to Buddhist critiques of the practice. It makes an unprecedented argument linking repentance before Fugen to an affirmation of poetry that goes beyond the kyōgen kigō ideology, which sought the transformation of profane verse into praise for and propagation of Buddhism, and claims that practicing the “way of poetry” will itself become the “Buddhist Path". |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Japanese journal of religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18874/jjrs.43.1.2016.55-88 |