A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism (Wiley-Blackwell Guides to Buddhism)

✍ Scribed by William E. Deal, Brian Ruppert

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism offers a comprehensive, nuanced, and chronological account of the evolution of Buddhist religion in Japan from the sixth century to the present day.

• Traces each period of Japanese history to reveal the complex and often controversial histories of Japanese Buddhists and their unfolding narratives
• Examines relevant social, political, and transcultural contexts, and places an emphasis on Japanese Buddhist discourses and material culture
• Addresses the increasing competition between Buddhist, Shinto, and Neo-Confucian world-views through to the mid-nineteenth century
• Informed by the most recent research, including the latest Japanese and Western scholarship
• Illustrates the richness and complexity of Japanese Buddhism as a lived religion, offering readers a glimpse into the development of this complex and often misunderstood tradition

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Overview of the Book
Chapter 1: Early Historical Contexts (Protohistory to 645)
Chapter 2: Ancient Buddhism (645–950)
Chapter 3: Early Medieval Buddhism (950–1300): The Dawn of Medieval Society and Related Changes in Japanese Buddhist Culture
Chapter 4: Late Medieval Buddhism (1300–1467): New Buddhisms, Buddhist Learning, Dissemination and the Fall into Chaos
Chapter 5: Buddhism and the Transition to the Modern Era (1467–1800)
Chapter 6: Modern Buddhism (1800–1945)
Chapter 7: Buddhism Since 1945
On Translation
Conventions
References
Chapter 1 Early Historical Contexts (Protohistory to 645)
Buddhism’s Transmission to Yamato: The Nihon shoki Narrative
Buddhism in the China Sea interaction sphere
Buddhist transmission routes: imperial narratives and private receptions
Conflicting dates for the transmission of Buddhism to the Japanese archipelago
Buddhism as an object and Buddhism as its objects
The ideology of official transmission narratives
Foreign gods vs. indigenous gods
Queen Suiko and Senior Prince Shōtoku
Asuka Buddhism (552–645)
Immigrants and the development of Asuka-period Buddhism
Aristocratic family Buddhist patronage
Asuka-period Buddhist material culture and ritual practices
Asuka-period Buddhist images: The Shaka Triad
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Ancient Buddhism (645–950)
Hakuhō‐Period Buddhism (645–710)
Toward a state Buddhism
Establishment of state temples
State-sponsored Buddhist rituals
State control of the Buddhist monastic community
The problem of “state Buddhism” in the Hakuhō period
Nara-Period Buddhism (710–794)
Buddhism in the permanent capital of a new nation
A national temple system
The regulation of monks and nuns
Nara monasticism and the state
Expressions of an ancient Japanese Buddhist worldview
Early Heian Period Buddhism (794–950)
New capital, new lineages
The problem of Heian new Buddhism
Early Heian Buddhist lineages: Tendai
Early Heian Buddhist lineages: Shingon
Women in Ancient Japanese Buddhism
References
Further Reading
Chapter 3 Early Medieval Buddhism (950–1300): The Dawn of Medieval Society and Related Changes in Japanese Buddhist Culture
Middle Heian- and Late Heian-Period Buddhism (950–1185)
Annual court ceremonies and envisioning a Buddhist ritual calendar
The rising prominence of Tendai lineages and related shifts in Heian Buddhism
The advent of Pure Land Buddhist discourses and practices
Kami, Buddhas, and sacred space
Buddhist performance and the flowering of aesthetic traditions
Ritual knowledge, transmission, and the increasing prominence of esoteric Buddhist lineages
Japanese Buddhists within the East Asian cultural sphere
Scripture-copying, fund-raising campaigns, and the explosion of merit in the twelfth century
Early and Middle Kamakura-Period Buddhism (1185–1300)
Late Heian Buddhist knowledge, proselytization, and “Kamakura Buddhisms”
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 4 Late Medieval Buddhism (1300–1467): New Buddhisms, Buddhist Learning, Dissemination and the Fall into Chaos
Late Kamakura-Period and Early Muromachi-Period Buddhism
The further development of “Kamakura Buddhisms”: Independence from the Kenmitsu monasteries and the consolidation of tradition
The Buddhist culture of learning: Zen, Shintō, networking monks, and seminaries
Women and Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 5 Buddhism and the Transition to the Modern Era (1467–1800)
Late Muromachi-Period Buddhism (1467–1600)
The continuing development of Kamakura Buddhisms, the arrival of the West, and the new world of Japanese Buddhism
Early and Middle Edo-Period Buddhism (1600–1800)
The effects of the Tokugawa regime
Buddhist learning, dissemination and permutations of Buddhist culture
Efforts to recover the precepts
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 6 Modern Buddhism (1800–1945)
Buddhism in the Transition to the Modern Period
Meiji Restoration
Meiji-Period Anti-Buddhist Sentiments
Buddhist Responses to Anti-Buddhist Sentiments
Japanese Buddhists Overseas: Scholars and Missionaries
The Study of Buddhism as an Academic Discipline
Buddhist New Religions
Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai
Reiyūkai Kyūdan
Dai Nippon Risshō Kōseikai
Japanese Buddhism and the Fifteen-Year War (1931–1945)
References
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Buddhism Since 1945
Buddhism in the Allied Occupation
Buddhist New Religions in Postwar Japan
Buddhist New New Religions
The Kyoto School
Critical Buddhism
Women in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Traditional Buddhist Lineages in Contemporary Japan
Contemporary Buddhist Rituals: Monastic and Lay
Buddhism in Contemporary Japanese Culture
Prospects
References
Further Reading
Character Glossary
Index
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