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Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship In The Lives Of Christina Of Markyate, Margery Kempe, And Margaret Paston, S. Elizabeth Passmore
Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship In The Lives Of Christina Of Markyate, Margery Kempe, And Margaret Paston, S. Elizabeth Passmore
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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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 …