Going with the flow and yet controlling the Flow: the Early Life, Education, and Scholarship of Takatsukasa Seigyoku, Current Abbess of Zenkoji's Daihongan Convent

Takatsukasa Seigyoku (b. 1929) is the current abbess of Daihongan convent, which is one of the two administrative heads of the popular Japanese pilgrimage temple Zenkoji. In this paper, I analyze Takatsukasa's autobiographical materials about her early life, her monastic education, and her scho...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Matthew S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: SpringerOpen [2016]
In: International journal of Dharma Studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 4
Further subjects:B Japanese Buddhist nuns
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B Autobiography
B Takatsukasa Seigyoku
B Buddhist studies research
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