Jewel in the ashes
Buddha relics and power in early medieval Japan
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Author
Publication
2000 - Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
126,250 words, Guess
Page Count
505 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL59570M
- ISBN-100674002458
- OCLC Control Number43032735
- OCLC Control Numberjewelinashesbudd00rupp
- Library of Congress Control Number99088187
and 2 more
- LibraryThing522248
- Goodreads899945
Classifications
- DDC294.3/63
- LCCBQ924 .R86 2000
Description
"This study addresses the relationship between the veneration of Buddha relics and the appropriation of power in early medieval Japan. Focusing on the ninth to the fourteenth centuries, it analyzes the ways in which relics and the wish-fulfilling jewels constructed of relics functioned as material media for the interactions of Buddhist clerics, the imperial family, lay aristocrats, women in the imperial and Fujiwara lineages, and warrior society."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Harvard East Asian monographs ;
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