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Bryan Lowe deposited States of “State Buddhism”: History, Religion, and Politics in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Scholarship in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThe most commonly employed framework for assessing the religion of the Nara period (710-784) remains the state Buddhism model (kokka Bukkyo ron 国家仏教論) advanced by Inoue Mitsusada 井上光貞 (1917-1983). While Inoue provided the most systematic and influential version of this thesis, this article traces its origins at least as far back as the Meiji peri…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited States of “State Buddhism”: History, Religion, and Politics in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Scholarship in the group
History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThe most commonly employed framework for assessing the religion of the Nara period (710-784) remains the state Buddhism model (kokka Bukkyo ron 国家仏教論) advanced by Inoue Mitsusada 井上光貞 (1917-1983). While Inoue provided the most systematic and influential version of this thesis, this article traces its origins at least as far back as the Meiji peri…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited States of “State Buddhism”: History, Religion, and Politics in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Scholarship in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThe most commonly employed framework for assessing the religion of the Nara period (710-784) remains the state Buddhism model (kokka Bukkyo ron 国家仏教論) advanced by Inoue Mitsusada 井上光貞 (1917-1983). While Inoue provided the most systematic and influential version of this thesis, this article traces its origins at least as far back as the Meiji peri…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited Contingent and Contested: Preliminary Remarks on Buddhist Catalogs and Canons in Early Japan in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThis article explores the notion of the Buddhist canon in seventh- and eighth-century Japan. It relies on scriptorium documents, temple records, and manuscripts of catalogs to argue that there was no single Buddhist canon in ancient Japan; each was created at a particular moment in a unique configuration to respond to the needs of the patron and…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited Contingent and Contested: Preliminary Remarks on Buddhist Catalogs and Canons in Early Japan in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThis article explores the notion of the Buddhist canon in seventh- and eighth-century Japan. It relies on scriptorium documents, temple records, and manuscripts of catalogs to argue that there was no single Buddhist canon in ancient Japan; each was created at a particular moment in a unique configuration to respond to the needs of the patron and…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited Buddhist Manuscript Cultures in Premodern Japan in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoRecent discoveries and scholarship on Japanese Buddhist manuscripts have illuminated new areas of research and raised previously unexplored questions in Buddhist studies and East Asian religions. This article introduces some of the recent finds and approaches to these materials. It focuses on three sets of sources: scriptorium documents from an…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited Buddhist Manuscript Cultures in Premodern Japan in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoRecent discoveries and scholarship on Japanese Buddhist manuscripts have illuminated new areas of research and raised previously unexplored questions in Buddhist studies and East Asian religions. This article introduces some of the recent finds and approaches to these materials. It focuses on three sets of sources: scriptorium documents from an…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited The Scripture on Saving and Protecting Body and Life: An Introduction and Translation in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThis article introduces and translates the Scripture on Saving and Protecting Body and Life (Jiuhu shenming jing 救護身命經), a text likely composed in sixth-century China that claims to represent the words of the Buddha. The article traces the treatment of this text in Chinese catalogues, and analyzes its themes with regard to other works composed…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited The Discipline of Writing: Scribes and Purity in Eighth-Century Japan in the group
History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThis article focuses on ritualized scribal practices in eighth-century Japan. It uses colophons, scriptorium documents, and narrative tales to explore how sutra copyists upheld vegetarian diets, performed ablutions, wore ritual garments, and avoided contact with pollutants stemming from death and illness. Such practices, often described in terms…[Read more]
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lubin deposited Writing and the Recognition of Customary Law in Premodern India and Java in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 9 years agoExplaining what made ancient Greek law unusual, Michael Gagarin observes that most premodern legal cultures “wrote extensive sets (or codes) of laws for academic purposes or propaganda but these were not intended to be accessible to most members of the community and had relatively little effect on the actual operation of the legal system.” Thi…[Read more]
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lubin deposited Writing and the Recognition of Customary Law in Premodern India and Java in the group
History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoExplaining what made ancient Greek law unusual, Michael Gagarin observes that most premodern legal cultures “wrote extensive sets (or codes) of laws for academic purposes or propaganda but these were not intended to be accessible to most members of the community and had relatively little effect on the actual operation of the legal system.” Thi…[Read more]
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Ricky Broome deposited Approaches to the Frankish community in the Chronicle of Fredegar and Liber Historiae Francorum in the group
History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThe purpose of this paper is to examine the notion of Frankish community – that is, the communal identity of those living within the regnum Francorum – as it emerged, developed and changed during the seventh century and into the early-eighth. This examination will focus on two historical texts, the so-called Chronicle of Fredegar, composed c.6…[Read more]
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Ricky Broome deposited Pagans, Rebels and Merovingians: otherness in the early Carolingian world in the group
History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoEarly Carolingian authors appear to have been acutely aware of ethnic and regional identities, and the sources of the late-eighth and early-ninth centuries contain many references to non-Franks. These ethnic terms alone, however, do not imply a sense of ‘otherness’. The incorporation of these non-Frankish peripheral peoples into a consolidated Fra…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited States of “State Buddhism”: History, Religion, and Politics in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Scholarship on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
The most commonly employed framework for assessing the religion of the Nara period (710-784) remains the state Buddhism model (kokka Bukkyo ron 国家仏教論) advanced by Inoue Mitsusada 井上光貞 (1917-1983). While Inoue provided the
most systematic and influential version of this thesis, this article traces its origins at least as far back as the Meiji peri…[Read more] -
Bryan Lowe deposited Contingent and Contested: Preliminary Remarks on Buddhist Catalogs and Canons in Early Japan on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
This article explores the notion of the Buddhist canon in seventh- and eighth-century Japan. It relies on scriptorium documents, temple records, and manuscripts of catalogs to argue that there was no single Buddhist canon in ancient Japan; each was created at a particular moment in a unique configuration to respond to the needs of the patron and…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited Buddhist Manuscript Cultures in Premodern Japan on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
Recent discoveries and scholarship on Japanese Buddhist manuscripts have illuminated new areas of research and raised previously unexplored questions in Buddhist studies and East Asian religions. This article introduces some of the recent finds and approaches to these materials. It focuses on three sets of sources: scriptorium documents from an…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited The Scripture on Saving and Protecting Body and Life: An Introduction and Translation on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
This article introduces and translates the Scripture on Saving and Protecting Body and Life (Jiuhu shenming jing 救護身命經), a text likely composed in sixth-century China that claims to represent the words of the Buddha. The article traces the treatment of this text in Chinese catalogues, and analyzes its themes with regard to other works composed…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited The Discipline of Writing Scribes and Purity in Eighth-Century Japan on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
This article focuses on ritualized scribal practices in eighth-century Japan. It uses colophons, scriptorium documents, and narrative tales to explore how sutra copyists upheld vegetarian diets, performed ablutions, wore ritual garments, and avoided contact with pollutants stemming from death and illness. Such practices, often described in terms…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
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Bryan Lowe deposited Texts and Textures of Early Japanese Buddhism: Female Patrons, Lay Scribes, and Buddhist Scripture in Eighth-Century Japan on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
Study of an eighth-century Japanese Buddhist manuscript in the Gest Collection at Princeton University. It argues for a mutually empowering and interdependent relationship between the scribe, the patron, and the text. It also looks at issues related to manuscript cultures, gender, the materiality of prayer, and the religious significance of labor.
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