Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation

Contents

Contents Series Editor’s Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Reign Periods xiii Introduction: Snapshots of Buddhism in Today’s Japan 1 1 Temple Buddhism Today: Scholarly and Popular Images of Corruption 11 2 Laity and the Temple: Past and Present 23 3 Trying to Have It Both Ways: The Laity in a World-Renouncer Organization 43 4 The Contemporary Priesthood: Images of Identity Crisis 62 5 New Priests for New Times? 90 6 Coming to Terms: Temple Wives and World-Renouncers 109 7 Money and the Temple: Law, Taxes, and the Image of Buddhism 140 8 The Price of Naming the Dead: Funerals, Posthumous Precept Names, and Changing Views of the Afterlife 165 Epilogue: The World of Householding World-Renouncers 191 Notes 199 Sources Cited 239 Index 251 ...