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Review Of Making Pilgrimages, Meaning And Practice In Shikoku By Ian Reader, Ronald S. Green
Review Of Making Pilgrimages, Meaning And Practice In Shikoku By Ian Reader, Ronald S. Green
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Ian Reader offers a unique and valuable contribution to the academic study of the Shikoku hachijūhakkasho, a pilgrimage to eighty-eight sacred places of Shikoku in honor of the Japanese Buddhist saint Kōbō Daishi (774-835).
Buddhist Exploration Of Peace And Justice, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun
Buddhist Exploration Of Peace And Justice, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Contains five speeches and twenty-three articles presented in the Fifth International Seminar on Buddhism and Leadership for Peace on the theme "Exploration of Ways to Put Buddhist Thought into Social Practice for Peace and Justice." The seminar was held under the joint auspice of Dae Won Sa Buddhist Temple of Hawaii and the Korean Buddhist Research Institute of Dongguk University, 1991.
KūKai, Founder Of Japanese Shingon Buddhism: Portraits Of His Life, Ronald S. Green
KūKai, Founder Of Japanese Shingon Buddhism: Portraits Of His Life, Ronald S. Green
Philosophy and Religious Studies
2003 dissertation, UW-Madison, Buddhist Studies. A study of the life of the Kūkai (774-822), known posthumously by the honorific title Kōbō Daishi (Great Teacher who Propagated the Dharma). Kūkai is best known as the founder of Japanese Shingon Tantric Buddhism. The study is based primarily on writings attributed to him and his immediate followers and secondarily on early legends (those apparently dating from the Heian period) as identified by modern researchers. These writings show that Kūkai was involved in a variety of social activities. In some instances I have attempted to understand the socio-political intention of Kūkai’s biographers, his followers …