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Plotting the prince

Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

Plotting the prince Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism / [electronic resource] : Kevin Gray Carr. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan -- The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia -- Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times -- Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place -- The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji -- Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.

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Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? --Art.
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? --Cult.


Buddhist hagiography--Japan.
Buddhism--History--Japan--To 1185.


Electronic books.

BQ986.O857 / C37 2012

294.3/92