Contingent and Contested: Preliminary Remarks on Buddhist Catalogs and Canons in Early Japan

This article explores the notion of the Buddhist canon in seventh-and eighthcentury Japan. It relies on scriptorium documents, temple records, and manuscripts of catalogs to argue that there was no single Buddhist canon in ancient Japan; each was created at a particular moment in a unique configurat...

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Main Author: Lowe, Bryan D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Nanzan Institute 2014
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-253
Further subjects:B Emperors
B Sacred Texts
B Buddhism
B Monks
B Religious Studies
B Bibliographic families
B Nara period
B Japanese culture
B Scrolls
B Cataloging
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