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Buddhism and the transformation of old age in medieval Japan / Edward R. Drott.
LIBRA BQ678 .D76 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drott, Edward Robertson, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging--Japan.
- Aging.
- Buddhism--Japan--History--1185-1600.
- Buddhism.
- Philosophy.
- Japan.
- History.
- Buddhism--Japan--Philosophy.
- Buddhism--Philosophy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Gods of the earth and the making of the vital center
- "Lamenting gray hair" : the poetics of retirement in early Japan
- Decrepit demons and defiled deities : elders at the crossroads in late Heian Japan
- Between this world and the next : reappraising the aged body in medieval Japan
- From outcast to saint : overcoming pollution in an age of decline
- The eccentric avatar : reimagining the body of the bodhisattva in early medieval engi
- The graying of the gods : the return of the okina kami in medieval myth
- "Tranquil heart, gazing afar" : reimagining the aged body in noh.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824851507
- 0824851501
- OCLC:
- 930026717
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