Discourse and ideology in medieval Japanese Buddhism / edited by Richard K. Payne and Taigen Dan Leighton.

"First published in 2006. Transferred to Digital Printing 2009."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Metaphor and theory of cultural change : in search of skillful means for understanding Kamakura Buddhism / Dale S. Wright -- The Sangoku-Mappō construct : Buddhism, nationalism, and history in medieval Japan / Mark L. Blum -- Texts, talismans, and jewels : the Reikiki and the performativity of sacred texts in medieval Japan / Fabio Rambelli -- Awakening and language : Indic theories of language in the background of Japanese esoteric Buddhism / Richard K. Payne -- Buddhist ceremonials (Kōshiki) and the ideological discourse of established Buddhism in early medieval Japan / James L. Ford -- The body of time and the discourse of precepts / Mark T. Unno -- Swords, words, and deformity : on Myōe's eccentricity / Rȳuichi Abe -- "Not mere written words" : perspectives on the language of the Lotus Sūtra in medieval Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone -- The Lotus Sūtra as a source of Dōgen's discourse style / Taigen Dan Leighton -- Empty-handed, but not empty-headed : Dōgen's kōan strategies / Steven Heine -- "Rely on the meaning, not the words" : Shinran's methodology and strategy for reading scriptures and writing the Kyōgyōshinshō.