Ōjōyōshū, Nihon Ōjō Gokuraku-ki, and the construction of pure land discourse in Heian Japan

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-270

  Rhodes, Robert F ^a  

^a Otani University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genshin; Narrative; Nihon j gokuraku ki; j y sh ; Pure land Buddhism; Sacred biography; Yoshishige no yasutane

Indexed keywords

EID: 63449088603     PISSN: 03041042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18874/jjrs.34.2.2007.249-270     Document Type: Article

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