Five Mountains
ISBN: 9781684172177
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / Harvard University Asia Center
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Conformity.; Frankfurt school of sociology.;

This work provides an in-depth history of the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in Medieval Japan. Contents include chapters on Japanese zen pioneers and their patrons; Chinese émigré monks and Japanese warrior rullers; the gozan system; Zen monastic life and rules; the monastery and its subtemples; and the Zen monastic economy. Includes a foreword by Edwin Reischauer.


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