Yōsai and the transformation of Buddhist precepts in pre-modern Japan
Yosai has often been considered the founder of Japanese Zen. However, this received image is beset by at least two problems. Firstly, this received image of Yosai was in fact created approximately a hundred years after his death. And secondly, his early career as an esoteric Buddhist is not being ta...
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SOAS, University of London
2014
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