Hokkeji and the reemergence of female monastic orders in premodern Japan

Main Author: Meeks, Lori Rachelle, 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:Multiple
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2010.
Series:Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 23
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10412261
Table of Contents:
  • Pilgrimage, popular devotion, and the reemergence of Hokkeji
  • Envisioning nuns: views from the court
  • Envisioning nuns: views from the male monastic order
  • Hokkeji's place in Eison's Vinaya revival movement
  • Social and economic life at Hokkeji and its branch convents
  • Ritual life at medieval Hokkeji
  • Representations of women and gender in Ritsu literature.