Of heretics and martyrs in Meiji Japan : Buddhism and its persecution /

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a...

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Main Author: Ketelaar, James Edward, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990.
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