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Buddhist Renunciation and the Female Life Cycle: Understanding Nunhood in Heian and Kamakura Japan |
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Meeks, Lori
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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
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| Volume | v.70 n.1 |
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| Date | 2010.06 |
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| Pages | 1 - 59 |
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| Publisher | Harvard-Yenching Institute |
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http://www.hjas.org/
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| Location | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
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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 | Author Affiliations: University of Southern California |
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| Keyword | BUDDHIST nuns; ASCETICISM -- Buddhism; WIDOWS; BUDDHISM & culture; WOMEN; HUMAN life cycle; SOCIAL conditions; RELIGIOUS aspects; JAPAN -- Social life & customs -- 794-1185; JAPAN -- Social life & customs -- 1185-1600 |
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| Abstract | The article presents an examination into the religious and social culture of women during the Heian, Kamakura and Muromachi period of Japanese history. Introductory details are provided noting that the widespread observance of widows becoming Buddhist nuns was so prevalent that it was considered part of the normative life-cycle of a woman in Japanese society. An overview is then provided of the ways in which the practices of Buddhist monastic asceticism were maintained while their cultural associations and meanings shifted over generations. |
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| ISSN | 00730548 (P); 19446454 (E) |
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| Hits | 385 |
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| Created date | 2014.12.29 |
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| Modified date | 2019.12.20 |
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