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Practical pursuits : religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan / Janine Tasca Sawada.

By: Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824863999 (electronic bk.)
  • 0824863992 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Practical pursuitsDDC classification:
  • 200/.952/09034 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2211.S73 S29 2004eb
Other classification:
  • 11.87
Online resources:
Contents:
The fertility of dead words -- Divination as cultivation -- Breathing as purification -- The parameters of learning -- Practical learning in the meditation hall -- Koji Zen -- Shifting boundaries in the sangha -- The great synthesis -- Enlightened conservatives -- The enemy within.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-368) and index.

The fertility of dead words -- Divination as cultivation -- Breathing as purification -- The parameters of learning -- Practical learning in the meditation hall -- Koji Zen -- Shifting boundaries in the sangha -- The great synthesis -- Enlightened conservatives -- The enemy within.

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