Sometimes a story is just a story : story collections and the popularization of Buddhism in Japan

This thesis examines the story collections written in the eighth through twelfth centuries in Japan. The thesis questions the traditional scholarly assumptions concerning who wrote the story collections and why. I question the argument that the story collections were written by the Buddhist clergy t...

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Main Author: Rice, Chandra
Format: Others
Published: 1998
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/551/1/MQ43526.pdf
Rice, Chandra <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Rice=3AChandra=3A=3A.html> (1998) Sometimes a story is just a story : story collections and the popularization of Buddhism in Japan. Masters thesis, Concordia University.