Soto Zen in Medieval Japan (Studies in East Asian Buddhism)

By William M. Bodiford

Book Overview

Explores how Soto monks between the 13th and 16th centuries developed new forms of monastic organization and Zen instructions and new applications for Zen rituals within lay life; how these innovations helped shape rural society; and how remnants of them remain in the modern Soto school, now the lar

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824814827
• ISBN13: 9780824814823
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"