The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless NationA full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system. |
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Page 204
... Buddhism introduced any rules curbing the exercise of power in Japan . In early Western discourse , the legitimation of morals and behaviour depended on paramount principles above and beyond immediate social reality . The abstractions ...
... Buddhism introduced any rules curbing the exercise of power in Japan . In early Western discourse , the legitimation of morals and behaviour depended on paramount principles above and beyond immediate social reality . The abstractions ...
Page 274
... Buddhism provides the contemporary Japanese with anything approaching political principles , a view of life or even moral standards . Most Japanese go through a Shinto - style ceremony when they marry , and have Buddhist sutras chanted ...
... Buddhism provides the contemporary Japanese with anything approaching political principles , a view of life or even moral standards . Most Japanese go through a Shinto - style ceremony when they marry , and have Buddhist sutras chanted ...
Page 278
... Buddhist uprisings Take , for example , Honen ( 1133-1212 ) , the first of the great Buddhist reformers of the Kamakura period , who preached the possibility of individual salvation . Buddhism had already altered the Shinto view of life ...
... Buddhist uprisings Take , for example , Honen ( 1133-1212 ) , the first of the great Buddhist reformers of the Kamakura period , who preached the possibility of individual salvation . Buddhism had already altered the Shinto view of life ...
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