Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian "Mediterranean"

by Sujung Kim

Book Overview

This ambitious work offers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myojin, the "god of Silla" worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries. Sujung Kim challenges the long-held understanding of Shinra Myojin as a protective deity of the Tendai Jimon school, showing how its worship emerged and developed in the complex networks of the East Asian "Mediterranean"--a "quality" rather than a physical space defined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824888448
• ISBN13: 9780824888442
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"