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A Storied Sage: Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha |
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Auerback, Micah L. (著)
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| Date | 2016.12.07 |
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| Pages | 320 |
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| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
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https://press.uchicago.edu
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| Location | Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Buddha; Canonicity; Hagiography; Historicism; Sakyamuni; secularization; vernacularization |
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| Abstract | This book offers a diachronic analysis of narratives recounting the life of the Buddha and their transformations—typically in written texts, but including material culture and ritual practice. It traces accounts of the Buddha from ancient Japan through the medieval and early modern eras, into the early 1910s. After a millennium of hagiography written in alignment with canonical accounts, stories of the life of the Buddha left the control of Buddhist organizations and entered the realm of commercial production. This shift produced a “vernacular Buddha” popular in the literary imagination of the early modern period, but unevenly responsive to the canon. Text-critical scholarship about the life of the Buddha emerged in the first decades of the nineteenth century. The book concludes by illuminating the activities of elite modern makers of culture—both lay intellectuals and lay artists—who embraced aspects of historicism to recast the Buddha as a human being and historical figure. These men inducted the Buddha into the distinctly modern, universal cult of great men of the past. This book thus argues that for Japan’s Buddhist heritage, modernity meant not only “secularization,” but also new acts of narrative apotheosis. |
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| Table of contents | Front Matter
Title Pages
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction A Buddha without Buddhism
One The Buddha as Preceptor
Two The Buddha as Local Hero
Three The Buddha as Exemplar
Four The Buddha as Fraud
Five The Buddha as Character
Conclusion Sage as Story
End Matter
Works Cited
Finding Aid for Names and Terms
Index |
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| ISBN | 9780226286389 |
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| DOI | 10.7208/chicago/9780226286419.001.0001 |
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| Related reviews | - Micah L. Auerback, A Storied Sage : Canon and Creation In the Making Of a Japanese Buddha / 岡田正彦 (著)
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| Created date | 2021.11.04 |
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| Modified date | 2022.04.07 |
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