Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japan: Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition by Jonathan Morris Augustine

Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japan: Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition

Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

Jonathan Morris Augustine

184 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history religion
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Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebra...

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