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The princess nun : Bunchi, Buddhist reform, and gender in early Edo Japan / Gina Cogan.

LIBRA BQ942.U555 C64 2014
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Language:
English
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Genre:
  • Biographies.
Physical Description:
xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1 [edition].
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014.
Contents:
  • 1 Bunchi's Birth and Early Childhood 24
  • 2 Bunchi's Marriage 46
  • 3 Bunchi's Buddhist Education 72
  • 4 Bunchi, Isshi, and Reform 96
  • 5 The Monastic Body, Desire, and Sex 115
  • 6 Reclusion and Spatiality 139
  • 7 Enshoji: Surroundings and People 166
  • 8 Discipline and Community at Enshoji 191
  • 9 Precepts and Ordination at Enshoji 214
  • 10 Bunchi at Court 230.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780674491977
  • 0674491971
OCLC:
858749440
Publisher Number:
40023439897

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