Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture / by Elisabetta Porcu.

• Superior document: Numen book series, v. 121
• Author: Porcu, Elisabetta.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Idioma: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 121.
• Descrición Física: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Notas: Description based upon print version of record.

Despite being one of the most influential forms of Japanese Buddhism, the Pure Land tradition, and notably its impact on the development of Japanese cultural history, has often been overlooked outside Japan. Taking into account recent scholarship on orientalism and occidentalism, this book, written...