Handing Down the Flame of the Dharma : Rites and Practices at the Sacred Sites of Japanese Buddhism / ed. by Kusunoki Junshō.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chōin, Katō, Contributor.

Fumon, Sagawa, Contributor.

Junshō, Kusunoki, Contributor.

Junshō, Kusunoki, Editor.

Kakudō, Mitsunaga, Contributor.

Masahiro, Asada, Contributor.

Rüsch, Markus, Contributor.

Tainen, Miyagi, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warsaw ; Berlin : Sciendo, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 2015, Ryukoku University founded the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures to serve as an international research platform for Buddhist Studies. Since its inception, the center has published a series of academic publications, as well as several collections of lectures aimed at a general audience.The collection of papers presented here as Handing Down the Flame of the Dharma: Rites and Practices at the Sacred Sites of Japanese Buddhism–the first volume to be published by the center in a foreign language–were originally published in two volumes titled Kaihōgyō and Shugendō (2016) and Shuni’e: Omizutori and Hanaeshiki (2020). Its primary aim is to enrich our understanding of Japanese Buddhism by presenting vivid, first-person accounts of concrete rites and practices. Written by the very people who actually perform these rites and augmented by previously unpublished photographs, these accounts open up a world that is usually inaccessible to the general public.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Translator’s Introduction

1 The Practice of Shugendō

2 The Meaning of Kaihōgyō

3 The Young Shinran

4 A Rite that has Continued Uninterrupted since the Nara Period: The World of the Tōdaiji Shuni’e

5 The Flower Rite Performed in the Second Month: A Ritual Assembly Handed Down at Yakushiji Temple

6 Ritual Assemblies of the Southern Capital: The Way to Become Buddha

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Feb 2025)

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

ISBN:

9784841940930

4841940936