Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism
by
 
Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

Title
Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism

Author
Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

ISBN
9780824834630

Personal Author
Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

Publication Information
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , c2012.

Physical Description
xii, 245 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Contents
Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan -- The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia -- Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times -- Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place -- The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji -- Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.

Personal Subject
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622?-Art.
 
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622?-Cult.

Subject Term
Buddhism -- Japan -- History -- To 1185.
 
Buddhist hagiography -- Japan.

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Field 805
npmlib 南院 BQ986.O857 C37 stc 10920402 11220236


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NPMSBBQ986.O857 C37 2012112202362B*南院西文圖書