Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism / Kevin Gray Carr. - 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan -- The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia -- Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times -- Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place -- The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji -- Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.

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22573/ctt62rkvj JSTOR


Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622 --Cult.
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622 --Art.
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622?
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622?.


To 1185


Buddhism--History--Japan--To 1185.
Buddhist hagiography--Japan.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
ART--Asian.
Buddhism.
Buddhist hagiography.
Cults.


Japan.


Electronic books.
Art.
History.

BQ986.O857 / C37 2012eb

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