Engaged Buddhism in Japan V2

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Title

Engaged Buddhism in Japan V2

Author

Watts, Jonathan S.

Published

Bangkok : International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), 2023

Language

English

ISBN

9786168209554

Notes

v.1 An engaged Buddhist history of Japan from the ancient to the moern : Buddhism's entry into Japan and the Nara period (646-794) -- Buddhist axialization in the Kamakura period (1185-1333) -- The Brahmanistic and Confucian turns of Buddhism in the Tokugawa era (1603-1868) -- Archaic continuity across the Tokugawa and Meiji periods -- Axial challengers : Buddhist socialism and the Lotus Sutra in the Taisho and early Showa periods -- Descent into Holy War and the conversion (tenko) to Imperial Way Buddhism -- The sudden turn towards peace in the 1940s and the question of principled social change -- Responsibility and autonomy in Japanese social ethics in the 1950-60s. v.2 A new socially engaged Buddhism in 21st century Japan : from intimate care to social ethics : Recollecting death : reforming funeral Buddhism through compassionate end-of-life care -- Rewriting culture : the suicide prevention priests of Japan -- Rebuilding karmic bounds : a Buddhist path through rural decline, migrant laborers, poverty, and homelessness.

Subjects

• Buddhism -- Japan -- History