Not seeing snow : Musō Soseki and medieval Japanese Zen

Not seeing snow : Musō Soseki and medieval Japanese Zen /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vallor, Molly (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 64.
Subjects:
Musō Soseki, > 1275-1351.
Buddhist monks > Japan > Biography.
Rinzai (Sect) > Japan > History.
Zen Buddhism > Japan > History.
Poets, Japanese > Biography.
Waka > History and criticism.
Landscape designers > Japan > Biography.
Landscape design > Japan > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Life of Muso Soseki
  • 2. Muso's Early Life: A Turn to Zen
  • 3. Practice and Enlightenment
  • 5. Recluse and Abbot
  • 6. Building a Line Under Emperor Godaigo
  • 7. Association with the Ashikaga and the Northern Court
  • 8. Death and Legacy
  • 1. Master Defined: Muso Soseki in Muchu mondoshu
  • 1. Muchu monddshu and the Tradition of Kana Hogo on Zen
  • 2. Playing Teacher
  • 3. License to Critique
  • 4. Calling Little Jade
  • 5. Conclusion
  • 2. Beneath the Ice: Muso Soseki and the Waka Tradition
  • 1. Shogaku Kokushishu: An Incomplete Textual History
  • 2. Muso and the Way of Waka
  • 3. Affirming the Arts: Muso Soseki and Buddhist Discourse on Waka
  • 4. Ambivalence and Abstraction: Literal and Figurative Representations of Reclusion in SKS
  • 5. New Takes on Old Tropes: Mind Over Lament
  • 6. Rarefying the Pine Wind
  • 7. Elegantly Unconfused
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 3. Blossoms before Moss: Medieval Views of Muso Soseki's Saihoji
  • 1. Long and Sacred History in Saiho shoja engi
  • 2. Temple and the Blossoms
  • 3. Blooms After Death in Shogaku Kokushishu
  • 4. Zen in Bloom in Muso's Chronology
  • 5. Muso Renovations: Muso and Medieval Landscape Design
  • 6. Saihoji as Muso Memorial
  • 7. Harmonizing Pure Land and Zen at Saihoji
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 4. Changing Agendas at Muso Soseki's Tenryuji
  • 1. Tenryuji: From Imperial Residence to Commercial Center
  • 2. Taiheiki's Tenryuji: Appearance of an Onryo
  • 3. Tenryuji in 1345: Reunification and the Rise of Buddhism
  • 4. Multiple Reconciliations
  • 5. Securing Imperial Support for Tenryuji
  • 6. Enlightening Godaigo and Other Objectives
  • 7. Tying Tenryuji to Ashikaga Takauji in 1351
  • 8. Conclusion.

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