Wakabayashi, Haruko Nishioka, 1967-

The seven tengu scrolls : evil and the rhetoric of legitimacy in medieval Japanese Buddhism / Haruko Wakabayashi. - 1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index.

From malign spirit to manifestation of ma -- Tengudō, the realm of tengu -- Structure and relationship to existing variant scrolls -- Critique of Kamakura Buddhism -- The Onjōji scroll and the question of authorship -- The definition of ma.

9780824861148 (e-book)


Tengu no sōshi.


Tengu.
Good and evil--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Buddhism--History--Japan--1185-1600.


Electronic books.

GR830.T3 / W34 2012eb

398.20952/01