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Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture / by Elisabetta Porcu

Porcu, Elisabetta [Verfasser]

Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (x, 263 pages) : Illustrations

Numen book series ; v. 121

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

978-90-474-4305-6 ; 90-474-4305-5 ; 1-283-06063-9 ; 978-1-283-06063-9 ; 978-90-04-16471-0

 

Japan  Kultur  Reines-Land-Schule  Geschichte 

Despite being one of the most influential forms of Japanese Buddhism, the Pure Land tradition, and notably its impact on the development of Japanese cultural history, has often been overlooked outside Japan. Taking into account recent scholarship on orientalism and occidentalism, this book, written from the perspective of the Study of Religions, provides an analysis of the impact that the Pure Land tradition, in particular Shin Buddhism, has exerted on mainstream forms of artistic expression (especially creative arts, literature and the tea ceremony) in modern and contemporary Japan.