The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production,...

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Main Author: Moerman, D. Max (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Further subjects:B Buddhist cosmology
B Buddhism / RELIGION / History
B Buddhist geography
B Buddhism (Japan) Maps
B Cartography (Japan) History
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