BOOKS - HISTORY - Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
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355531
355531
Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Author: Paul Groner
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 400
Format: PDF
File size: 11,8 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 400
Format: PDF
File size: 11,8 MB
Language: ENG
Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and ordinations.