Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai.

Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and ordinat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Groner, Paul
Other Authors: Buswell, Robert E.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2022.
Series:Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Ser.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22d4zkr