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Book Synopsis Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds by : Brian J. Nichols
Download or read book Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds written by Brian J. Nichols and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols’s pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China. Nichols conducted more than twenty-six months of field research over a fourteen-year period (2005–2019) to develop a re-description of Chinese monastic Buddhism that reaches beyond canonical sources and master narratives to local texts, material culture, oral history, and living traditions. His work decenters normative accounts and sheds light on how Buddhism is lived and practiced. It introduces readers to Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery and its community of clergy striving to revive traditions after the turmoil of the Maoist era; the lay Buddhists worshiping in the monastery’s courtyards and halls; the busloads of tourists marveling at the site’s buildings and artifacts, some dating as far back as the Tang Dynasty (ninth century); and the local officials dedicated to supporting—and restricting—the return of religion. Using gazetteers, epigraphy, and other archival sources, Nichols begins by tracing the history of Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery from the Tang Dynasty to the present, noting the continued relevance of preternatural events like the lotus-blooming mulberry trees and auspicious purple clouds associated with the founding of the monastery. The contemporary monastery is then explored through ethnographic participation/observation and interviews. Nichols uncovers a number of unexpected features of Buddhist religious life, making a case for the fundamentally liturgical nature of Buddhist monastic practice—one marked by a program of daily dharaṇi (sacred text) recitation, esoteric traditions, and ancestor veneration. Finally, he presents an innovative spatial analysis of the Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery temple that reveals how different groups engage with the site to create a place of religious practice, a tourist attraction, and a community park.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema by : Joanne Bernardi
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema written by Joanne Bernardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the field. The volume’s twenty-one chapters represent work by authors with diverse backgrounds and expertise, recasting traditional questions of authorship, genre, and industry in broad conceptual frameworks such as gender, media theory, archive studies, and neoliberalism. The volume is divided into four parts, each representing an emergent area of inquiry: "Decentring Classical Cinema" "Questions of Industry" "Intermedia as an Approach" "The Object Life of Film" This is the first anthology of Japanese cinema scholarship to span the temporal framework of 200 years, from the vibrant magic lantern culture of the nineteenth century, through to the formation of the film industry in the twentieth century, and culminating in cinema’s migration to gaming, surveillance video, and other new media platforms of the twenty-first century. This handbook will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Japanese studies, film studies, and cultural studies more broadly.
Book Synopsis A Daughter of the Samurai by : Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Download or read book A Daughter of the Samurai written by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughter of the Samurai tells the true story of a samurai and 's daughter, brought up in the strict traditions of feudal Japan, who was sent to America to meet her future husband. An engrossing, haunting tale that gives us insight into an almost forgotten age. Madam Sugimoto was born in Japan, not in the sunny southern part of the country which has given it the name of and quot;The Land of Flowers, and quot; but in the northern province of Echigo which is bleak and cold and so cut off from the rest of the country by mountains that in times past it had been considered fit only for political prisoners or exiles. Her father was a Samurai, with high ideals of what was expected of a Samurai and 's family. His hopes were concentrated in his son until the son refused to marry the girl for whom he was destined and ran off to America. After that all that was meant for him fell to the lot of the little wavy-haired Etsu who writes here so delightfully of the things that happened in their childhood days in far-away Japan.
Book Synopsis A Daughter of the Samurai by : Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Download or read book A Daughter of the Samurai written by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-03-20T21:28:18Z with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was born into a samurai family in the years following the Meiji Restoration in 1868. In this autobiography, she recounts her experiences growing up in a culture with very strict expectations. As her family’s influence and power wanes, a marriage is arranged for her and she leaves to join her future husband in America. Etsu’s story is interleaved with explanations of Japanese culture, religion, and history. As she is exposed to more of the world outside of Japan, she must reconcile the differences between the traditions she grew up with and the ideas of her new homeland. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Book Synopsis Destiny in Deep Clouds by : Chu WenJiangHu
Download or read book Destiny in Deep Clouds written by Chu WenJiangHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Servant Wu was born with a family name of Wu Jun, his real brother was called Wu Jun, his niece was called Wu Qian'er, his son-in-law was Zhu Zhizhan, he was the famous constitutional emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he had a famous concubine with the family name Wan Zhen'er. Wan Tong, every word loyal, direct descendant, commander of the Imperial Secret Service, blood brother called Wan Fu, Wan Gui, brother-in-law called Zhu Shizhen, blood sister called Wan Zhen'er .... These two people, who were originally parallel to each other, intersected ... The battle in the house ... The official battle ... Gong Dou ...
Book Synopsis Legend of Demon Master Kunpeng by : Pu ShiDeHuangNiu
Download or read book Legend of Demon Master Kunpeng written by Pu ShiDeHuangNiu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern man traversing space and time had arrived at the prehistoric period. Who would have thought that he would actually become a great villain of the demon master, Kun Peng. In order to become a saint, many schemes were carried out, and finally, the story of becoming a saint was told ...
Book Synopsis Tales of the Taoist Immortals by : Eva Wong
Download or read book Tales of the Taoist Immortals written by Eva Wong and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-07-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Eva Wong heard and memorized many tales told to her by Hong Kong's finest professional storytellers, by actors on the radio, and by her grandmother. These popular tales of the Taoist immortals were also often dramatized in Chinese operas. The stories are of famous characters in Chinese history and myth: a hero's battle with the lords of evil, the founder of the Ming dynasty's treacherous betrayal of his friends, a young girl who saves her town by imitating rooster calls. Entertaining and often provocative, these tales usually include a moral. The immortals are role models in Chinese culture, as well as examples of enlightenment. Some of the immortals were healers, some were social activists, some were aristocrats, and some were entrepreneurs. The tales chosen by Eva Wong here are of the best-known immortals among the Chinese. Their names are household words and their stories are told and retold by one generation to the next.
Book Synopsis Joseph and His Brethren by : Louis Napoleon Parker
Download or read book Joseph and His Brethren written by Louis Napoleon Parker and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Other Side of Zen by : Duncan Ryūken Williams
Download or read book The Other Side of Zen written by Duncan Ryūken Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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." "Williams's work is based on careful 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 fundraising donor lists."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Purple Cloud by : Matthew Phipps Shiel
Download or read book The Purple Cloud written by Matthew Phipps Shiel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wide catastrophe has left him the last man on Earth.
Book Synopsis Cranes and Blazing Sun by : Cang LongFengYun
Download or read book Cranes and Blazing Sun written by Cang LongFengYun and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 1273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacy treasure, the mysterious brocade box, caused by the blood rain, love and hatred, it was a complex mistake.
Book Synopsis Beacon Fire and Shooting Star by : Xiaofei Tian
Download or read book Beacon Fire and Shooting Star written by Xiaofei Tian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liang dynasty (502-557) is one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood. Under the Liang, literary activities, such as writing, editing, anthologizing, and cataloguing, were pursued on an unprecedented scale, yet the works of this era are often dismissed as "decadent" and no more than a shallow prelude to the glories of the Tang. This book is devoted to contextualizing the literary culture of this era--not only the literary works themselves but also the physical process of literary production such as the copying and transmitting of texts; activities such as book collecting, anthologizing, cataloguing, and various forms of literary scholarship; and the intricate interaction of religion, particularly Buddhism, and literature. Its aim is to explore the impact of social and political structure on the literary world.
Book Synopsis Butterfly King's Mermaid Bride by : Liu Shaobai
Download or read book Butterfly King's Mermaid Bride written by Liu Shaobai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the huge light of disillusionment covered the entire sky and the earth, the river dried up in an instant. All things died in an instant, the mountains were moved to the ground, and all life was annihilated in an instant.
Book Synopsis Comparative Literature by : Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett
Download or read book Comparative Literature written by Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett and published by London : K. Paul, Trench. This book was released on 1886 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shinkokinshū (2 vols) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shinkokinshū: A New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (ca. 1205) is supreme among the twenty-one anthologies of court poetry ordered by the Japanese emperors between the tenth and fifteenth centuries in terms of overall literary art, the high quality of the almost two thousand poems included, and the depth of poetic sentiment. Laurel Rasplica Rodd's complete translation allows the reader to appreciate the elaborate integration of the anthologized poems into a single whole by means of chronological procession or imagistic association from one poem to the next that was perfected in the Shinkokinshū by Retired Emperor Gotoba, himself a serious poet, and the courtiers he appointed as compilers, including Fujiwara no Teika, one of the greatest of Japanese poets.
Book Synopsis Monograph Series by : Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
Download or read book Monograph Series written by Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nine Cloud Dream by : Kim Man-jung
Download or read book The Nine Cloud Dream written by Kim Man-jung and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life—presented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl *Named one of the year's most anticipated books by The New York Times, The Millions, and i09* Often considered the highest achievement in Korean fiction, The Nine Cloud Dream poses the question: Will the life we dream of truly make us happy? Written in 17th-century Korea, this classic novel’s wondrous story begins when a young monk living on a sacred Lotus Peak in China succumbs to the temptation of eight fairy maidens. For doubting his master’s Buddhist teachings, the monk is forced to endure a strange punishment: reincarnation as the most ideal of men. On his journey through this new life full of material, martial, and sensual accomplishments beyond his wildest dreams, he encounters the eight fairies in human form, each one furthering his path towards understanding the fleeting value of his good fortune. As his successes grow, he comes closer and closer to finally comprehending the fundamental truths of the Buddha’s teachings. Like Hesse’s Siddhartha, The Nine Cloud Dream is an unforgettable tale that explores the meaning of a good life and the virtue of living simply with mindfulness. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
