A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism offers a comprehensive, nuanced, and chronological account of the evolution of Buddhist religion in Japan from the sixth

This first major study in English on Japanese Buddhism by one of Japan’s most distinguished scholars in the field of Religious Studies is to be widely welcome

More than thirteen centuries of clergy, laity, and social conditions interacted to mold Japan's Buddhism. Today's resulting characteristics, which distinguish i

This volume gathers essays written by seventeen specialists in the science of religions. It focuses on the social, cultural, institutional, and political contex

This book brings together studies by seventeen specialists in the science of religions in which they relate the changes in their discipline to the changes which