Shards from a Wooden Shoe Shop: Religious Experience, Historical Change, and Suzuki Daisetsu
The Myōkōnin are a distinctive group of devout Buddhist practitioners in Japan. Their history can be traced to the mid-Tokugawa period, generally associated with the Pure Land tradition, and over the centuries hundreds have been identified as belonging to this group. After a review of this history,...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
2021
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-266 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro 1870-1966
/ Myokonin
/ History 1750-1950
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia KCD Hagiography; saints TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
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Summary: | The Myōkōnin are a distinctive group of devout Buddhist practitioners in Japan. Their history can be traced to the mid-Tokugawa period, generally associated with the Pure Land tradition, and over the centuries hundreds have been identified as belonging to this group. After a review of this history, with a particular look at its affective aspects and the history of the major chronicle of its members, the Myōkōninden, this article shows how early ideas associated with the Myōkōnin were taken up, and extended by Suzuki Daisetsu in the mid-twentieth century as part of his world historical arguments for a new Japanese-inspired form of self-realization appropriate to the postwar world. |
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Contains: | Enthalten in: Japanese journal of religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18874/jjrs.48.2.2021.245-266 |