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  • Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japan

    Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition

    by Jonathan Morris Augustine ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
    Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as sacred objects. In Japan, it was believed that those who read the biographies of lofty monks would acquire ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Goto-Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Making of Buddhist Modernism

    by David L. McMahan ...
    A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects and indeed constructs a historically unique modern Buddhism even while purporting to represent ancient tradition timeless teaching or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature Asian as well as Western weaves together the strands of different traditions to create a novel hybrid that brings ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Ideals of the East

    With Special Reference to the Art of Japan

    by Kakuzo Okakura ...
    Series series Stone Bridge Classics
    An exploration of the roots of beauty in Japanese aesthetics.Written by the foremost authority of the era on Oriental archeology and art, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art. First published in 1883, it responded to a vogue in Western culture for a growing awareness and appreciation of Japanese artistic expressions of beauty and philosophy—a ... Read more

    $2.95 USD

  • Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol

    An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha

    Edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr. ...
    Series series Buddhism and Modernity
    We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Japanese Wood Cuts

    Wood Cuttings from the 1800's

    by Wood Cuts For You ...
    Japanese wood cuts from the early 1800's Over 30 pages. Take a look at the beauty.  ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Japan's Total Empire

    Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism

    by Louise Young ...
    Series Book 8 - Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
    In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Modern Japan: All That Matters

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series All That Matters
    How has Japan become a global superpower and what does the future look like for it? There was a time in the 1980s when, if the media were to be believed, the Japanese were set to become the masters of the world and owners of all our companies and intellectual properties. Today, Japan's rapid ascendancy now seems dwarfed by the metoric rise of its neighbour, China.Here, Jonathan Clements charts the ... Read more

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  • Buddhism and Violence

    Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia

    Edited by Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western standards of ‘peaceful’ behavior. This stereotype – which may well be termed ‘positive Orientalism,’ ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Enlightenment in Dispute

    The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China

    by Jiang Wu ...
    Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment of the time. He investigates the development of Chan Buddhism in the seventeenth century, focusing ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Buddha: Volume 6: Ananda

    by Osamu Tezuka ...
    Series Book 6 - Buddha
    In the sixth volume of manga visionary Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, the devil Mara possesses the bandit Ananda, half-brother of Devadatta, in an effort to eliminate the Buddha. A ruthless killer who is impervious to physical harm, Ananda will retain the devil's favor only if he spurns his love interest.When Ananda and his bandit buddy attack the Fire Shrine of the Brahmin brothers Kassapa, it is none ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Living Karma

    The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu

    by Beverley McGuire ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repentance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescapable. Drawing attention to Ouyi's unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD