Ryuichi Abe
Auteur van The Weaving of Mantra
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The Awakening of Faith: Attributed to Asvaghosha (Essentials of Mahayana Buddhism) (1967) — Introductie, sommige edities — 116 exemplaren
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- 阿部 龍一
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- Kelo University (BS|Economics)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Columbia University (PhD) - Beroepen
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"The Weaving of Mantra" embeds K?kai within the fabric of political and social life in ninth-century Japan and explains how esoteric Buddhism played a crucial role in many societal changes in Japan -- from the growth of monasteries into major feudal powers to the formation of the native phonetic alphabet, kana. As Ab? illustrates, K?kai's writings and the new type of discourse they spawned also marked Japan's transition from the ancient order to the medieval world, replacing Confucianism as the ideology of the state.… (meer)