Title The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion / edited by Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : Japan's culture of secrecy from a comparative perspective / Mark Teeuwen -- Secrets and secrecy in the study of religion : comparative views from the ancient world / Albert de Jong -- The Problem of secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism / Ronald M. Davidson -- Myth and secrecy in Tang-period Tantric Buddhism / Martin Lehnert -- Secrecy in Japanese esoteric Buddhism / Fabio Rambelli -- Reconsidering the taxonomy of the esoteric : hermeneutical and ritual practices of the lotus sutra / Lucia Dolce -- Knowing vs. owning a secret : secrecy in medieval Japan, as seen through the sokui kanjo enthronement unction / Mark Teeuwen -- Secrecy, sex and apocrypha : remarks on some paradoxical phenomena / Nobumi Iyanaga -- Esotericism in noh commentaries and plays : Konparu Zenchiku's Meishuku shu and Kakitsubata / Susan Blakeley Klein -- The elephant in the room : the cult of secrecy in Japanese Tantrism / Bernard Faure -- Myths, rites, and Icons : three views of a secret / Kadoya Atsushi -- Two modes of secrecy in the Nihon shoki transmission / Bernhard Scheid -- When secrecy ends : the Tokugawa reformation of Tendai Buddhism and its implications / William M. Bodiford -- Hiding the shoguns : secrecy and the nature of political authority in Tokugawa Japan / Anne Walthall -- "Esoteric" and "public" in the late Mito thought / Kate Wildman Nakai Summary The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The essays in this impressive work refer to Esoteric Buddhism as the core of Japan's ""culture of secrecy"". Esoteric Buddhism developed in almost all Buddhist countries of Asia, but it was of particular importance in Japan where its impact went far beyond the borders of Buddhism, also affecting Shinto as well as non-religious Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Secrecy -- Religious aspects. Secrecy -- Japan Secrecy -- Religious aspects -- Tantric Buddhism Tantric Buddhism -- Japan -- History RELIGION -- History. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious. Civilization -- Buddhist influences Secrecy Secrecy -- Religious aspects Tantric Buddhism Geheimhaltung Geheimkult Religion Godsdiensten. Geheimhouding. SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- Buddhist influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003707 Subject Japan Japan Japan. Genre/Form History Aufsatzsammlung. Form Electronic book Author Scheid, Bernhard, 1960- Teeuwen, Mark ISBN 9780203966990 0203966996 1134168748 9781134168743

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