Kūkai’s transcultural rhetoric of prayer: on his writings inspired by the Chinese “prayer text” (yuanwen 願文)
The religious and philosophical import of Kūkai’s 空海 (774–835) writings has sometimes distracted attention away from their formal and rhetorical properties, even though these are in fact integral to their messages. This article examines Kūkai’s achievement in the genre of the ‘prayer text’ (Ch. yuan...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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Studies in Chinese Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 7, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 279-305 |
| Further subjects: | B
prayer text
B Kūkai B parallel prose B Esoteric Buddhism B kanbun poetics |
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