Name: Shotoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition (en Inglés)
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Author: Michael I. Como
ISBN: 9780195188615

portada Shotoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oup Usa

Autor

Michael I. Como

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

ISBN

0195188616

ISBN13

9780195188615

N° edición

Categorías

Budismo

Shotoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition (en Inglés)

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Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), the purported founder of Japanese Buddhism, is widely referred to as Japan's first national hero. The cult that grew up around his memory is recognized as one of the most important phenomena in early Japanese religion. This book examines the creation and evolution of the Shotoku cult over the roughly 200 years following his deatha period that saw a series of revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion. Michael Como highlights the activities of a cluster of kinship groups who claimed descent from ancestors from the Korean kingdom of Silla. He skillfully places these groups in their socio-cultural context and convincingly demonstrates their pivotal role in bringing continental influences to almost every aspect of government and community ideology in Japan. He argues that these immigrant kinship groups were not only responsible for the construction of the Shotoku cult, but were also associated with the introduction of the continental systems of writing, ritual, and governance. By comparing the ancestral legends of these groups to the Shotoku legend corpus and Imperial chronicles, Como shows that these kinship groups not only played a major role in the formation of the Japanese Buddhist tradition, they also to a large degree shaped the paradigms in terms of which the Japanese Imperial cult and the nation of Japan were conceptualized and created. Offering a radically new picture of the Asuko and Nara period (551794), this innovative work will stimulate new approaches to the study of early Japanese religion focusing on the complex interactions among ideas of ethnicity, lineage, textuality, and ritual.