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Kakunyo and the Making of Shinran and Shin Buddhism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Kakunyo and the Making of Shinran and Shin Buddhism./
Author:	Callahan, Christopher Thane.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2011,
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International73-08A.
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3491762
ISBN:	9781267096036

Kakunyo and the Making of Shinran and Shin Buddhism.
Callahan, Christopher Thane.

Kakunyo and the Making of Shinran and Shin Buddhism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2011 - 228 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2011.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

While it is common to refer to Shinran as the "founder" of Jodo Shinshu ("True Pure Land School"), one of the largest and most historically significant Buddhist communities in Japan, he died largely unknown but to a small group of disciples who were indistinct from a larger Pure Land movement inspired by his teacher, Honen. It was not until the Kakunyo, his great-grandson, and the biographies that he produced that a distinct religious community was envisioned with Shinran as its founder. In contrast with previous scholarship that looks through Kakunyo's biographies to the represented past in an effort to recover the historical Shinran, this dissertation examines these biographies in the historical, ritual and discursive contexts in which they were produced and received. Chapter One begins with a Biography of the Biographer, and provides the necessary historical background to illuminate his choices in the writing of the biographies. Chapter Two focuses on Kakunyo's ritual biography, the Hoon Koshiki, and demonstrates how in defining the benevolent virtues of the life, teaching and community of Shinran, Kakunyo sought to define Shin piety as gratitude. Chapter Three continues the analysis of the ritual context of the biographies by examining the history of the memorial services and Kakunyo's struggle to place Shinran and Honganji at the devotional center of the community. In Chapter Four, we look at the illustrated biographies themselves, charting the making of the biographies and the choices of the biographer, examining the genres of representation that Kakunyo employed and analyzing the way in which the biographies gave form to Shinran, his teaching and his community. Finally, in the Conclusion, I assess the impact of Kakunyo and the making of Shinran and the community by looking at the success of his biographic vision and its continued life in the history of the community. I then briefly look at how the example of Kakunyo and his biographies forces us to rethink our understanding of medieval Japanese religion. At the heart of this rethinking is a call to attend to the importance of religious biographies in the making of new religious communities and history.

ISBN: 9781267096036Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.
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Biographies

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