Jonathan Morris Augustine

Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japan

Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of the bodhisattva Gyoki illustrates how Japanese Buddhist hagiographers chose to regard a single monk's charitable activities as a miraculous achievement that shaped the course of Japanese history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780415646291
• ISBN-10: 0415646294
• Artikelnr.: 36811762

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Morris Augustine is an Associate Professor of International Communication at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. Since 1973 he has spent most of his life in Asia with the exception of a decade at Princeton University where he obtained his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Uncovering the Lives of Gyoki 1. The Received Biography of
Gyoki 2. The Historicity of Gyoki's Accounts 3. Gyoki and the Soniryo:
Violations of Early Monastic Regulations in Japan 4. Gyoki and the Politics
of the Nara Court 5. Gyoki's Charitable Projects 6. The Development of
Gyoki Biographies 7. Conclusion