Discourse and ideology in medieval Japanese Buddhism
New York, NY
Routledge
Includes bibliographical references and index
Edited by Richard K. Payne, Taigen Dan Leighton
Dale Wright: Metaphor and theory of cultural change : in search of skillful means for understanding Kamakura Buddhism -- Mark Blum: The sangoku-mappo construct : Buddhism, nationalism, and history in medieval Japan -- Fabio Rambelli: Materiality and performativity of sacred texts in medieval Japan -- Richard K. Payne: Awakening and language : Indic theories of language in the background of Japanese esoteric Buddhism -- James Ford: Buddhist ceremonials )Koshiki( and the ideological discourse of established Buddhism in early medieval Japan -- Mark Unno: The body of time and the discourse of precepts -- Ryuichi Abe: Myoe's mount lacka : mantra, landscape, and medieval Japanese poetics -- Jacqueline Stone: "Not mere words" : perspectives on the language of the Lotus sutra in medieval Japan -- Taigen Leighton: The Lotus sutra as a source of Dogen's discourse style -- Steven Heine: Empty-handed, but not empty-headed : Dogen's koan strategies -- Eisho Nasu "Rely on the meaning, not the words" : Shinran's methodology of reading scriptures and strategy of writing of the Kyogyoshinsho