RT Book
T1 The other side of Zen: a social history of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan
T2 Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
A1 Williams, Duncan Ryūken 1969-
LA English
PP Princeton, NJ
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1761837672
AB Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION AND ABBREVIATIONS -- ONE Toward a Social History of Sôtô Zen -- TWO Registering the Family, Memorializing the Ancestors: The Zen Temple and the Parishioner Household -- THREE Funerary Zen: Managing the Dead in the World Beyond -- FOUR The Cult of Dôryô Daigongen: Daiyûzan and Sôtô Zen Prayer Temples -- FIVE Medicine and Faith Healing in the Sôtô Zen Tradition -- CONCLUSION The Other Side of Zen -- APPENDIX A: NYONIN JÔBUTSU KETSUBONKYÔ ENGI (THE ORIGINS OF THE BLOOD POOL HELL SUTRA FOR WOMEN'S SALVATION) -- APPENDIX B: SHINSEN GEDOKU MANBYÔEN FUKUYÔ NO KOTO (HOW TO PREPARE AND TAKE THE WIZARD MOUNTAIN "POISON-DISPELLING" PILL THAT CURES ALL ILLNESSES) -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
AB Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the broader Japanese religious landscape during the era. Using newly-discovered manuscripts, Duncan Ryuken Williams argues that the success of Soto Zen was due neither to what is most often associated with the sect, Zen meditation, nor to the teachings of its medieval founder Dogen, but rather to the social benefits it conveyed.Zen Buddhism promised followers many tangible and attractive rewards, including the bestowal of such perquisites as healing, rain-making, and fire protection, as well as "funerary Zen" rites that assured salvation in the next world. Zen temples also provided for the orderly registration of the entire Japanese populace, as ordered by the Tokugawa government, which led to stable parish membership.Williams investigates both the sect's distinctive religious and ritual practices and its nonsectarian participation in broader currents of Japanese life. While much previous work on the subject has consisted of passages on great medieval Zen masters and their thoughts strung together and then published as "the history of Zen," Williams' work is based on care ul examination of archival sources including temple logbooks, prayer and funerary manuals, death registries, miracle tales of popular Buddhist deities, secret initiation papers, villagers' diaries, and fund-raising donor lists
OP 256
CN 294.3/927
SN 978-1-4008-3259-0
K1 RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY / Zen)
K1 Religion
K1 Princeton University Press
K1 Zen master
K1 Monasticism
K1 Writing
K1 Sect
K1 Rite
K1 PHILOSOPHY / Zen
K1 Kokugakuin University
K1 Monastery
K1 Leprosy
K1 Memorial service (Orthodox)
K1 Nichiren
K1 religion in Japan
K1 Sanskrit
K1 Monumenta Nipponica
K1 Transliteration
K1 Posthumous name
K1 University of Hawaii Press
K1 HISTORY / Asia / Japan
K1 Akadama Jinkyōgan
K1 Akutsu Shōemon
K1 Amida Buddha
K1 Aruga Kizaemon
K1 Birnbaum, Raoul
K1 Buddhahood
K1 Butsujō
K1 Chōjuin Temple
K1 Daiyūgan
K1 Daranisuke
K1 Dharma succession
K1 Dōryō Daigongen
K1 Enjōji Temple
K1 Funrei
K1 Gedokuen
K1 Gokūshiki
K1 Hakone Betsuin
K1 Hatano Yoshishige
K1 Hirose Ryōkō
K1 Ichimantai Jizō
K1 Ishikawa Rikizan
K1 Izumiya Sakuemon
K1 Jippensha Ikku
K1 Jōdo Shin sect
K1 Kakumon
K1 Kangakuya pharmacy
K1 Kurozumikyō
K1 LaFleur, William
K1 Lalou, Marcelle
K1 Dharma name
K1 Buddhist studies
K1 Christian
K1 Christianity
K1 Constipation
K1 Abbreviation
K1 Early modern period
K1 Faith healing
K1 Fumi-e
K1 Ginger
K1 Gratitude
K1 Guanyin
K1 Headache
K1 Hungry ghost
K1 Incense
K1 Japanese Zen
K1 Japanese name
K1 Kojiki
K1 Bhikkhu
K1 Bodhisattva
K1 Buddhism in Japan
K1 Buddhism
K1 Buddhist temple
K1 Chinese Buddhism
K1 Deity
K1 Edo period
K1 Faith in Buddhism
K1 Gongen
K1 Herb
K1 Kirishitan
DO 10.1515/9781400832590