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The halo of golden light : imperial authority and Buddhist ritual in Heian Japan / Asuka Sango.
LIBRA BQ685 .S35 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sango, Asuka, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--Japan--History--To 1185.
- Buddhism.
- Buddhism and state.
- History.
- Japan.
- Buddhism--Japan--Rituals.
- Buddhism and state--Japan--History.
- Japan--Politics and government--794-1185.
- Politics and government.
- Buddhism--Rituals.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- The emperor and the Golden light sutra
- Buddhist debate and the religious policy of the Heian state
- Clerical promotion: domination, resistance, and alternatives
- Buddhist rituals and the reconstitution of the Ritsuryō polity
- When rites go wrong: ritual and political conflict
- Ritual imitation and the retired emperor: reinventing imperial religious authority.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824839864
- 0824839862
- OCLC:
- 889941225
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