Издательство:

De Gruyter

Год:

2022

Описание:

The first interdisciplinary collection of essays on a central Japanese Buddhist ritual called kanjō ("pouring water on the top of the head"), a variant of the ancient Indian abhiṣeka ritual. This book traces the history of this ritual from ancient Persia and India, where it was used to consecrate a new king at the time of the enthronement, to its momentous adoption by Buddhism, when it became the ritual to appoint a new monk. In this form, it spread to China and Tibet and further east to Japan, where it was performed in a wide range of occasions and transformed in response to local cults.

Ключевые слова: Япония, буддизм, ритуал кандзё