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Paperback Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai Book

ISBN: 082489328X

ISBN13: 9780824893286

Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai

(Part of the Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Series)

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Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and ordinations. Some medieval Japanese exegetes, however, were obsessively concerned with these topics as they strove to understand what it meant to be a Buddhist...

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