The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082483416X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Haruko Wakabayashi is adjunct lecturer at Meiji Gakuin University.
About the Author Haruko Wakabayashi is adjunct lecturer at Meiji Gakuin University.
The Seven Tengu Scrolls will therefore appeal to those with an interest in Japanese art, history, and religion, as well as in interdisciplinary approaches to socio-cultural history.. Haruko Wakabashi focuses in this study particularly on tengu as manifestations of the Buddhist concept of Mra (or ma), the personification of evil in the form of the passions and desires that are obstacles to enlightenment. Popularly depicted as half-bird, half-human creatures with beaks or long noses, wings, and human bodies, tengu today are commonly seen as guardian spirits associated with the mountain ascetics known as yamabushi. In the medieval period, however, the character of tengu most often had a darker, more malevolent aspect. The highlight of the work discusses in detail the thirteenth-century narrative scroll Tengu zshi (also kn