A History of Japanese Buddhism

Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of plates......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 Characteristics of Japanese Buddhism......Page 21
2 Ancient Buddhism 0 official monks......Page 31
3 Official and reclusive monks......Page 59
4 Medieval Japanese towns and the rise of Kamakura New Buddhism......Page 86
5 Fieldwork in Kamakura......Page 95
6 Black and White......Page 110
7 The era of religious fund-raising......Page 116
8 The salvation of outcasts......Page 131
9 The salvation of women......Page 147
10 The logic of funerals......Page 164
11 The new thinking of Kamakura New Buddhism......Page 175
12 The rise of medieval towns......Page 190
13 Buddhism in the Muromachi era......Page 206
14 Buddhists in the Edo era......Page 220
15 Moral times and Japanese Buddhism......Page 240
16 The Shikoku Pilgrimage......Page 254
Afterword......Page 262
Bibliography......Page 266
Index......Page 274
21 Plates......Page 280