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Pure Land, Real World - Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination

de Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

28,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Shows that the Pure Land tradition informed twentieth-century Japanese thought in profound and surprising ways and suggests that it might do the same for twenty-first-century thinkers. The critical power of Pure Land utopianism has yet to be exhausted.
Jodo Shinshu - Shin Buddhism In Medieval Japan

de James C. Dobbins

21,62€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This work combines the biography of the founder of Shin Buddhism with a detailed study of the complex development of the religion, from its simple beginnings as a small, rural primarily lay Buddhist movement in the 12th century to its rapid growth as a powerful urban religion in the 15th century.
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Immigrants To The Pure Land - The Modernization, Acculturation, And Globalization Of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941

de Michihiro Ama

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 Explores in detail the activities of individual Shin Buddhist ministers responsible for making specific decisions regarding the practice of Jodo Shinshu in local sanghas. By focusing so closely, Ama reveals the contestation of immigrant communities faced with discrimination and exploitation in their new homes and with changing messages from Japan.
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Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism

de Richard K. Payne

40,50€

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 Although contemporary scholars often study Esoteric Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism as if they were mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed schools of Buddhism, Aaron Proffitt examines Dohan's Compendium in the context of the eastward flow of Mahayana Buddhism from India to Japan.
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Adding Flesh To Bones - Kiyozawa Manshiâ€™S Seishinshugi In Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

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 This collection of seventeen essays situates modern Shin Buddhist thinker Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903) and his new form of spirituality, Seishinshugi, in the broader context of Buddhism and religious thought in modern Japan.
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Taiwan Archaeology - Local Development And Cultural Boundaries In The China Seas

de Richard Pearson

41,14€

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 Describes the archaeology of the island, outlining the major discoveries of the past fifty years. These date from roughly 200,000 years ago to the seventeenth century AD, the time of Dutch and Spanish contact and the entry of Taiwan into global trade markets. The book focuses on some forty sites and is based on roughly 450 published sources.
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Connecting The Kingdom - Sailing Vessels In The Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840

de Peter R. Mills

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 Offers a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by historians. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western sailing technology to help build their island nation, Mills presents the fascinating history of sixty Hawaiian-owned schooners, brigs, barks, and peleleu canoes.
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The Revolution Of Buddhist Modernism - Jodo Shin Thought And Politics, 1890-1962

de Richard K. Payne

87,55€

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 Provides an account of the upheaval that took place within the world of Japanese Jodo Shin (True Pure Land) Buddhism when scholar-priest Kiyozawa Manshi initiated modernist reforms. Kiyozawa and his disciples reenvisioned Pure Land teachings as a path to awakening in the present world rather than rebirth in a faraway Pure Land after death.
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Leveraging Sovereignty - Kauikeaouli'S Global Strategy For The Hawaiian Nation, 1825-1854

de J. Susan Corley

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 Examines the leadership of Hawai'i's longest reigning monarch, King Kamehameha III. The book highlights the early 1840s, when Kauikeaouli secured recognition from the United States, Britain, and France that he ruled over an independent and sovereign Hawaiian state.
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Ko - An Ethnobotanical Guide To Hawaiian Sugarcane Cultivars

de Noa Kekuewa Lincoln

57,88€

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 This long-awaited volume presents an overview of more than one hundred varieties of native and heirloom k (Hawaiian sugarcane) as well as detailed varietal descriptions of cultivars that are held in collections today.
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Intimate Japan - Ethnographies Of Closeness And Conflict

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 Explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. The volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms.
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Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism

de Aaron P. Proffitt e Richard K. Payne

90,13€

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 Although scholars often study Esoteric Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism as if they were mutually exclusive, diametrically opposed, schools of Buddhism, Aaron Proffitt examines the context of the eastward flow of Mahayana Buddhism from India to Japan and uncovers Mahayana Buddhists employing so-called esoteric approaches along the path to awakening.
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Adding Flesh To Bones - Kiyozawa Manshi'S Seishinshugi In Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

de Michihiro Ama

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 This collection of seventeen essays situates modern Shin Buddhist thinker Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903) and his new form of spirituality, Seishinshugi, in the broader context of Buddhism and religious thought in modern Japan.
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Aspiring To Enlightenment - Pure Land Buddhism In Silla Korea

de Richard D. Mcbride Ii

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 Combines analyses of scriptural, exegetical, hagiographical, epigraphical, art historical, and literary materials to provide an episodic account of the Amitbha cult in Silla times (ca. 300-935) and its rise in an East Asian context through the mutually interconnected perspectives of doctrine and practice.
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Tide And Current 2nd Ed - Fishponds Of Hawai'I

de Wyban

32,13€

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 Chronicles ten years in the life of author and artist Carol Araki Wyban, during which she lived with, learned about, and came to love the fishponds of Hawai'i. In lyric prose and art, the book captures the essence of the timeless ecological truths she discovered.
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Myanmar'S Buddhist-Muslim Crisis - Rohingya, Arakanese, And Burmese Narratives Of Siege And Fear

de John Clifford Holt

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 Examines the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than three years John Holt traveled around Myanmar engaging in sustained conversations with prominent and articulate participants and observers.
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The Way Of The Cross - Suffering Selfhoods In The Roman Catholic Philippines

de Julius Bautista

103,00€

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 Every year during Holy Week in the Philippine province of Pampanga, hundreds of men and women undergo acts of excruciating, self-inflicted pain in ways that evoke the Way of the Cross. This book addresses this practice through in-depth analyses of three interconnected ritual acts: the pabasa, the pagdarame, and the pamamaku king krus.
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Chinese Pure Land Buddhism - Understanding A Tradition Of Practice

de Charles B. Jones

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 Provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. Chinese Pure Land Buddhism has previously received very little attention from western scholars. Charles B. Jones examines the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention and why the few past treatments of the topic missed many of its distinctive features.
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Pure Lands In Asian Texts And Contexts - An Anthology

135,12€

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 This anthology of Buddhist texts in translation provides a framework that will transform contemporary scholarship on Pure Land Buddhism and instigate its recognition as an essential field of Buddhist studies. Traditional and contemporary primary sources are organised by genre rather than chronologically, geographically, or by religious lineage.
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Pure Land, Real World - Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination

de Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

83,69€

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 During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Saburo seized on modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to resist the demands of a state that was bearing down on its citizens with increasing force. Pure Land, Real World treats the religious thought of these three major figures in English for the first time.
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Transnational Japan In The Global Environmental Movement

de Simon Avenell

35,99€

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 Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, this book shows how Japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and industrial pollution in the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and Europe.
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Tracing The Itinerant Path - Jishu Nuns Of Medieval Japan

de Caitilin J. Griffiths

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 Women have long been active supporters and promoters of Buddhist rituals and functions, but their importance in the operations of Buddhist schools has often been minimized. Chin'ichibo, a nun who taught male and female disciples is considered an anomaly. However this book argues that Chin'ichibo is in fact an example of her time.
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The Ryukyu Kingdom - Cornerstone Of East Asia

de Mamoru Akamine

39,85€

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 Presents a translation of a key work by one of Okinawa's most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine. The book provides a compelling new picture of the role played by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the history of East Asia.
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The Halo Of Golden Light - Imperial Authority And Buddhist Ritual In Heian Japan

de Asuka Sango

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 In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the state and the Buddhist community during the Heian period (794-1185), Asuka Sango details the complex ways in which the emperor and other elite ruling groups employed Buddhist ritual to legitimate their authority.
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