Plotting the prince :

Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism / Kevin Gray Carr. - 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan -- The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia -- Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times -- Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place -- The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji -- Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.

9780824865726 (e-book)


Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? --Cult.
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? --Art.


Buddhism--History--Japan--To 1185.
Buddhist hagiography--Japan.


Electronic books.

BQ986.O857 / C37 2012eb

294.3/92