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Reconfiguring Ritual Authenticity: The Ordination Traditions of Aristocratic Women in Premodern Japan |
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Meeks, L. R.
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| Source |
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.33 n.1 |
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| Date | 2006 |
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| Pages | 51 - 74 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Lori Meeks is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. |
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| Keyword | Women’s ordination; nyōin; nyōbō; Genshin; Shōshi; Senshi; Ryōnin; Daoshi; shukke; nyūdō; jukai; shōmyō |
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| Abstract | It has often been assumed that, following their ninth-century exclusion from
state-sponsored monastic ordination platforms, Japanese women had little
access to tonsure ceremonies that their contemporaries would have recognized
as authentic. This study questions that received narrative by examining the
elaborate and formalized Buddhist ordination traditions of elite Heian- and
Kamakura-period women. The ceremonies cultivated and maintained by these
women were based not on the vinaya orthodoxy of the sangha but rather on the
nyūdō, or lay novice, ordination procedures popular at court. Although nyūdō
ordinations did not render ordinands full-fledged members of the monastic
community and, as such, were not deemed “official” by Buddhist institutions,
historical records suggest that Heian- and Kamakura-period courtiers
preferred the nyūdō mode of renunciation to orthodox vinaya modes. Placed
within the greater context of court culture, then, the tonsure ceremonies of
elite women gain a sense of “official-ness” and authenticity not recognized in
studies focused on vinaya orthodoxy. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 1644 |
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| Created date | 2007.08.03 |
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| Modified date | 2017.08.29 |
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