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Lords of Life : Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 5.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faure, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Bernard Faure is Emeritus Kao Professor in Japanese Religion at Columbia University and Emeritus George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Karma and Punishment
- The Esoteric System
- Synopsis
- 1: Surveiller et Punir
- Quantifying Life
- Key Concepts
- Chengfu
- Karma
- Judges, Registrars, and Inspectors
- The Registers of Life and Death
- Benming and luming
- Astral Surveillance
- The Star Overhead
- Body Gods
- Negotiating Destiny
- Balancing Accounts
- Inspection Tours and Fasting Days
- The Sūtra of Trapuṣa and Bhallika
- Fasting Days
- To Watch, Punish, or Forgive?
- The Brush and the Register
- Codetta
- 2: Toward an Ontology of Life
- The Adamantine Body
- The Healing Buddha and the Return of the Soul
- Rebirth or Revival?
- Samantabhadra's Life-Prolonging Ritual
- The Esoteric Fugen
- Fugen's Iconography
- Vajrasattva and Vajrapāṇi
- Vajrapāṇi
- Vajrapāṇi and Secrecy
- Vajrayakṣa (Kongōyasha)
- Responding to Demonic Threat
- Soul Thieves
- Ḍākinī and the Human Yellow
- Fudō and the Six-Month Prolongation of Life
- Aizen and the Human Yellow
- 3: Lords of Life
- Taiyi, the Great One
- Siming, the Arbiter of Destiny
- The Northern and Southern Dippers
- The Three Terraces
- Indra (Taishakuten)
- The Vedic and Post-Vedic Indra
- Indra (Śakra) in Indian Buddhism
- Indra in Korea
- Taishakuten in Japan
- Indra and Yama
- Taishakuten and Nichiren
- Taishakuten and Kōshin
- King Yama
- Recording Devices
- The daṇḍa Staff
- Yama as the Eighth Consciousness
- Datsueba
- Taizan Fukun
- Taizan Fukun as an Astral God
- Taizan Fukun in Deep Sands
- A Yin-Yang Deity
- Jizō, the Rising Star
- Amaterasu and Dakiniten
- Amaterasu, Taishakuten, and Dakiniten
- 4: Divine Spies
- The Stove God
- Between History and Structure
- The Stove God in China
- The Stove God in Japan
- Structural Aspects
- Kōshin
- Historical Overview
- The Three Corpses.
- Shōmen Kongō
- The Kōshin Network
- The Kōshin Vigil
- Shōmen Kongō and the kōshintō
- Coda
- Epilogue?
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Faure, Bernard Lords of Life
- ISBN:
- 9780824899561
- OCLC:
- 1593366717
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