| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Going to the Mountain -- Celestial Railroad -- Outside the Fudo Entrance: The Women's Hall -- Ch. 2 Staying at a Shukubo Temple -- Our Midday Arrival -- Evening -- "A Mind of Rapture": The Morning Sutra Service -- Ch. 3 Life and Legend of Kobo Daishi (Kukai) -- Early Years -- To China's Ch'ang-an and Hui-kuo -- Conquest of the Japanese Capital -- Founding of Koyasan -- Servant to Emperor and Nation -- Kukai's Theory of the Ten Stages -- "Death" of Kukai -- Ch. 4 Twelve Centuries on the Mountain -- Abbot Kangen Visits the Tomb (835-921) -- Joyo, Fujiwara Michinaga, and Ex-Emperor Shirakawa (921-1129) -- Koya-hijiri, the Rise of Pure Land Buddhism, and Kakuban (1073-1143) -- Kiyomori (1150-1186) -- Kamakura Era (1185-1333) -- Under the Ashikaga Shogunate (1336-1573) -- Oda Nobunaga: Koyasan under Siege (1571-1582) -- ̂ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kūkai, 774-835.
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| SUBJECT |
Kūkai, 774-835 fast |
| Subject |
Kōyasan Monasteries (Japan)
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| SUBJECT |
Kōyasan Monasteries (Japan) fast |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Rituals & Practice.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435632912 |
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1435632915 |
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