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Buddhism and the transformation of old age in medieval Japan
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Buddhism and the transformation of old age in medieval Japan [electronic resource] / Edward R. Drott.
ISBN
082486686X
9780824866860
0824851501
9780824851507
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Asian and Pacific Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Philosophy and Religion.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 27, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Gods of the earth and the making of the vital center
"Lamenting gray hair" : the poetics of retirement in early Japan
Decrepit demons and defiled deities : elders at the crossroads in late Heian Japan
Between this world and the next : reappraising the aged body in medieval Japan
From outcast to saint : overcoming pollution in an age of decline
The eccentric avatar : reimagining the body of the bodhisattva in early medieval engi
The graying of the gods : the return of the okina kami in medieval myth
"Tranquil heart, gazing afar" : reimagining the aged body in noh.
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