Reconfiguring Ritual Authenticity: The Ordination Traditions of Aristocratic Women in Premodern Japan
It has often been assumed that, following their ninth-century exclusion from state-sponsored monastic ordination platforms, Japanese women had little access to tonsure ceremonies that their contemporaries would have recognized as authentic. This study questions that received narrative by examining t...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[2006]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-74 |
Further subjects: | B
Empresses
B Reishi B Women B Aristocracy B Buddhism B Ceremonies B Ordination B Priests B Religious rituals B Tonsures |
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