Japanese temple Buddhism worldliness in a religion of renunciation /

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1. Verfasser: Covell, Stephen Grover, 1965-
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2005.
Schriftenreihe:Topics in contemporary Buddhism.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Temple Buddhism today: scholarly and popular images of corruption
  • Laity and the temple: past and present
  • Trying to have it both ways: the laity in a world-renouncer organization?
  • The contemporary priesthood: images of identity crisis
  • New priests for new times?
  • Coming to terms: temple wives and world-renouncers
  • Money and the temple: law, taxes and the image of Buddhism
  • The price of naming the dead: funerals, posthumous precept names, and changing views of the afterlife.