Religions of Japan in practice /George J. Tanabe, Jr., editor.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1999.
- xviii, 564 pages ; 24 cm.
- Princeton readings in religions .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ethical Practices -- Social Values -- Selected Anecdotes to Illustrate Ten Maxims -- Kaibara Ekken's Precepts on the Family -- The Shingaku of Nakazawa Doni -- Clerical Precepts -- Eisai's Promotion of Zen for the Protection of the Country -- Shingon's Jiun Sonja and His "Vinaya of the True Dharma" Movement -- A Refutation of Clerical Marriage -- Lay Precepts -- Eison and the Shingon Vinaya Sect -- Kokan Shiren's Zen Precept Procedures -- Ritual Practices -- Gods -- Records of the Customs and Land of Izumo -- Miraculous Tales of the Hasedera Kannon -- Japanese Puppetry : From Ritual Performance to Stage Entertainment -- The Shinto Wedding Ceremony : A Modern Norito -- Spirits -- Tama Belief and Practice in Ancient Japan -- Japan's First Shingon Ceremony -- Shingon Services for the Dead -- Genshin's Deathbed Nembutsu Ritual in Pure Land Buddhism -- Women and Japanese Buddhism : Tales of Birth in the Pure Land -- Epic and Religious Propaganda from the Ippen School of Pure Land Buddhism -- Buddhism and Abortion : "The Way to Memorialize One's Mizuko" -- Rituals of Realization -- The Contemplation of Suchness -- The Purification Formula of the Nakatomi -- Dogen's Lancet of Seated Meditation -- Chido's Dreams of Buddhism -- A Japanese Shugendo Apocryphal Text -- Faith -- On Attaining the Settled Mind : The Condition of the Nembutsu Practitioner -- Plain Words on the Pure Land Way -- Shinran's Faith as Immediate Fulfillment in Pure Land Buddhism -- Institutional Practices -- Court and Emperor -- The Confucian Monarchy of Nara Japan -- The Founding of the Monastery Gangoji and a List of Its Treasures -- Hagiography and History : The Image of Prince Shotoku -- Nationalistic Shinto : A Child's Guide to Yasukuni Shrine -- Sectarian Founders, Wizards, and Heroes -- En the Ascetic -- The Founding of Mount Koya and Kukai's Eternal Meditation -- Legends, Miracles, and Faith in Kobo Daishi and the Shikoku Pilgrimage -- A Personal Account of the Life of the Venerable Genku -- Priest Nisshin's Ordeals -- Makuya : Prayer, Receiving the Holy Spirit, and Bible Study -- Orthopraxis and Orthodoxy -- Muju Ichien's Shinto-Buddhist Syncretism -- Contested Orthodoxies in Five Mountains Zen Buddhism -- Motoori Norinaga on the Two Shrines at Ise -- Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion : An Essay by Kuroda Toshio -- Sasaki Shoten : Toward a Postmodern Shinshu Theology -- Contemporary Zen Buddhist Tracts for the Laity : Grassroots Buddhism in Japan -- Special Places -- Keizan's Dream History -- Tokeiji : Kamakura's "Divorce Temple" in Edo Popular Verse -- Chinese Romanization Conversion Tables.