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Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia

✍ Scribed by Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn (Ed.)

Publisher
Brill
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
201
Series
Studies on East Asian Religions Vol. 6
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgments
‎Figures
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction (Balkwill and Benn)
‎Chapter 1. Metropolitan Buddhism vis-à-vis Buddhism at the Metropolis: How to Understand the Ling in the Empress Dowager’s Name (Balkwill)
‎Chapter 2. King Chinhŭng Institutes State-Protection Buddhist Rituals (McBride II)
‎Chapter 3. The Commissioner of Merit and Virtue: Buddhism and the Tang Central Government (Goble)
‎Chapter 4. Images of Humane Kings: Rulers in the Dali-Kingdom Painting of Buddhist Images (Bryson)
‎Chapter 5. Buddhism and Statecraft in Korea: The Long View (Evon)
‎Chapter 6. Refusing the Ruler’s Offerings: Accommodation and Martyrdom in Early Modern Nichiren Buddhism (Stone)
‎Index

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