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Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism
Richard M. Jaffe
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| #2731616 in Books | 2010-08-31 | 2010-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.70 x6.00l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 320 pages||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| A Major Look at the Very Model of a Modern Meiji Married Monk|By Crazy Fox|Once upon a time a guy fresh out of college and seriously interested in Buddhism went to Japan; he visited local temples on a regular basis, and was increasingly confounded by the fact that it was usually a woman roughly the same age as the head monk who acted something like the temple's unofficial rece||ÝA¨ richly detailed and clearly written work. . . Jaffe provides abundant material for anyone interested in state-religion issues. . . . A must read for anyone interested in Japanese religious history, Buddhism, or Japanese history. -- Stephen G. Co
Buddhism comes in many forms, but in Japan it stands apart from all the rest in one most striking way―the monks get married. In Neither Monk nor Layman, the most comprehensive study of this topic in any language, Richard Jaffe addresses the emergence of an openly married clergy as a momentous change in the history of modern Japanese Buddhism. He demonstrates, in clear and engaging prose, that this shift was not an easy one for Japanese Buddhists. Yet the tran...
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