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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Nanzan Institute
2014
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-253 |
| Further subjects: | B
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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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