Carol Richmond Tsang is an independent scholar and an Associate in Research at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies.
關鍵詞
Honganji; jodo Shinshu; daisho ikki; Rennyo; Muromachi period; ikko ikki
摘要
The Honganji branch of True Pure Land Buddhism, unlike other Buddhist institutions in the Muromachi period, explicitly followed a hereditary, dynastic model for its leadership. Honganji’s policies arranging marriage and adoption contributed to the expansion and definition of the sect in the fifteenth century, and to its acceptance as a legitimate branch of Buddhism. Secondarily, when the sect experienced a civil war in Kaga in 53, differences in marital and adoptive policies between the earlier temples and those led by Rennyo’s children contributed to the defeat of the latter.
