Product Description: This is about the role of images in the development of the cult of Jizo Bodhisattva in Japan from the mid-twelfth century to the mid-seventeenth. It places emphasis on the narrative aspects of visual culture, demonstrating that the synergy and negotiation between Buddhist and native traditions was central to the creation and dissemination of the cult in Japan...read more

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Product Description: The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and the sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Brings together the artistic achievements of Japanese monks, from calligraphic poems to abstract paintings to often humorous portraits of the Zen patriarch, many published for the first time, and explains their foundation in Zen philosophy. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more