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Placing Nichiren in the "Big Picture": Some Ongoing Issues in Scholarship |
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Author |
Stone, Jacqueline I.
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Source |
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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Volume | v.26 n.3-4 |
Date | 1999 |
Pages | 384 - 421 |
Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
Publisher Url |
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Keyword | Nichiren; Tendai; original enlightenment; Kamakura Buddhism; medieval Japan; shinkoku |
Abstract | This article places Nichiren within the context of three larger scholarly issues: definitions of the new Buddhist movements of the Kamakura period; the reception of the Tendai discourse of original enlightenment (hongaku) among the new Buddhist movements; and new attempts, emerging in the medieval period, to locate “Japan ” in the cosmos and in history. It shows how Nicmren has been represented as either politically conservative or rad ical, marginal to the new Buddhism or its paradigmatic figv/re, depending' upon which model of “Kamakura new Buddhism” is employed. It also shows how the question of Nichiren,s appropriation of original enlighten ment thought has been influenced by models of Kamakura Buddnism emphasizing the polarity between “old” and “new,institutions and sug gests a different approach. Lastly, it surveys some aspects of Nichiren ys thinking- about “Japan ” for the light they shed on larger, emergent medieval discourses of Japan relioiocosmic significance, an issue that cuts across the “old Buddhism,,/ “new Buddhism ” divide. |
ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
Hits | 775 |
Created date | 2013.01.10 |
Modified date | 2017.08.28 |
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