Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

This work provides a history of the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in Medieval Japan. In Japan today, Zen monastic life is practiced substantially as it was practiced in medieval Japan or Sung dynasty China. More than twenty-one thousand Zen temples are active. This book examines the Zen monastery as a major institution in medieval Japanese society. Focusing on the Five Mountains network of officially sponsored Zen monasteries, it describes the transmission of Rinzai and Soto Zen to Japan, traces the patterns of secular patronage, and discusses in detail the Zen monastic environment, the monastic rule, the community, and the economy. This is the first detailed study in any Western language of the social and institutional development of Zen Buddhism. Martin Collcutts illustrated text should be valuable to those interested in medieval Japanese history as well as students of Zen practice and Zen-related culture. 0_Frontmatter 1_FOREWORD_BY_EDWIN_O_REISCHAUER_page_vii 2_PREFACE_page_xv 3_INTRODUCTION_page_1 00000045.png 5_1_JAPANESE_ZEN_PIONEERS_AND_THEIR_PATRONS_page_25 6_2_CHINESE_MIGR_MONKS_AND_JAPANESE_WARRIOR-RULERS_page_57 7_3_THE_ARTICULATION_OF_THE_GOZAN_SYSTEM_page_91 00000153.png 9_4_THE_ZEN_MONASTIC_LIFE_AND_RULE_page_133 10_5_THE_MONASTERY_AND_ITS_SUB-TEMPLES_page_171 11_6_THE_COMMUNITY_page_221 12_7_THE_ZEN_MONASTIC_ECONOMY_page_249 13_CONCLUSION_page_291 14_NOTES_page_301 15_BIBLIOGRAPHY_page_335 16_GLOSSARY_page_361 17_INDEX_page_383 Пустая страница Пустая страница Пустая страница Пустая страница