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Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism
Title:
Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism
Author:
Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-
ISBN:
9780824834630
Personal Author:
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.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 南院 BQ986.O857 C37 stc 10920402 11220236
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