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The seven tengu scrolls evil and the rhetoric of legitimacy in medieval Japanese Buddhism

Title: The seven tengu scrolls [electronic resource] : evil and the rhetoric of legitimacy in medieval Japanese Buddhism / Haruko Wakabayashi.
Author: Wakabayashi, Haruko Nishioka, 1967-
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2012.

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Description

1 online resource (xx, 203 p., [4] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.)

Uniform Title

Seven tengu scrolls (Online)

Alternative Title

Seven tengu scrolls (Online)

Subject

Tengu no sōshi
Tengu
Good and evil > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Buddhism > Japan > History > 1185-1600

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

From malign spirit to manifestation of ma -- Tengudō, the realm of tengu -- Structure and relationship to existing variant scrolls -- Critique of Kamakura Buddhism -- The Onjōji scroll and the question of authorship -- The definition of ma.

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