Kūkai’ s transcultural rhetoric of prayer: on his writings inspired by the Chinese “prayer text” (yuanwen yuan wen)
Kūkai’s transcultural rhetoric of prayer: on his writings inspired by the Chinese “prayer text” (yuanwen 願文)
The religious and philosophical import of Kūkai’ s kong hai (774–835) writings has sometimes distracted attention away from their formal and rhetorical properties, even though these are in fact integral to their messages. This article examines Kūkai’ s achievement in the genre of the ‘prayer text’ (...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Studies in Chinese Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 7, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 279-305 |
| Further subjects: | B
prayer text
B Kūkai B parallel prose B Esoteric Buddhism B kanbun poetics |
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