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The halo of golden light : imperial authority and Buddhist ritual in Heian Japan / Asuka Sango.

By: Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824854003
  • 0824854004
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Halo of golden light.DDC classification:
  • 294.30952/09021 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ685 .S35 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
The emperor and the Golden light sutra -- Buddhist debate and the religious policy of the Heian state -- Clerical promotion: domination, resistance, and alternatives -- Buddhist rituals and the reconstitution of the Ritsuryo polity -- When rites go wrong: ritual and political conflict -- Ritual imitation and the retired emperor: reinventing imperial religious authority.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index.

The emperor and the Golden light sutra -- Buddhist debate and the religious policy of the Heian state -- Clerical promotion: domination, resistance, and alternatives -- Buddhist rituals and the reconstitution of the Ritsuryo polity -- When rites go wrong: ritual and political conflict -- Ritual imitation and the retired emperor: reinventing imperial religious authority.

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