Ticket to Salvation: Nichiren Buddhism in Miyazawa Kenji's "Ginga tetsudō no yoru"

Miyazawa Kenji's Ginga tetsudō no yoru is a children's story that explores what heaven is like with very visible Christian themes and images, but the logic and vision underneath is more Buddhist than Christian. In Kenji's prose masterpiece, the author ultimately subsumed Christianity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holt, Jon (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: 305-345
Further subjects:B Festivals
B Heaven
B Buddhism
B Religious Studies
B Milky Way Galaxy
B Death
B Drowning
B Faith
B Poetry
B Christianity
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