The propaganda traditions of the Yugyo-ha : the campaign to establish the Jishu as an independent school of Japanese Buddhism (1300-1700)
This thesis examines references to priests and temples of the Japanese Pure Land Buddhist school claiming Ippen (1239-1289) as founder; the most important of the lineages was the YugyoÌ-ha, or 'itinerancy school'. Scattered in Noh plays, epics, documents, histories, diaries, et cetera over a four-hundred-year period, these references are the residue of a long-term and successful propaganda campaign advertising doctrines, miracles, and services to the military class. The thesis focuses especially on the themes and formulaic diction borrowed from existing texts and developed by the school as it distinguished itself from other Pure Land schools. The roÌle of what became the JishuÌ (usually translated 'Time Sect') in the guardianship of the identity of the founder of the Tokugawa family is of special interest.
Thornton, Sybil Anne
Medieval Japanese literature ; folk traditions ; Japanese religion ; Jishu
The propaganda traditions of the Yugyo-ha : the campaign to establish the Jishu as an independent school of Japanese Buddhism (1300-1700). This thesis examines references to priests and temples of the Japanese Pure Land Buddhist school claiming Ippen (1239-1289) as founder; the most important of the lineages was the YugyoÌ-ha, or 'itinerancy school'. Scattered in Noh plays, epics, documents, histories, diaries, et cetera over a four-hundred-year period, these references are the residue of a long-term and successful propaganda campaign advertising doctrines, miracles, and services to the military class. The thesis focuses especially on the themes and formulaic diction borrowed from existing texts and developed by the school as it distinguished itself from other Pure Land schools. The roÌle of what became the JishuÌ (usually translated 'Time Sect') in the guardianship of the identity of the founder of the Tokugawa family is of special interest.
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