The seven tengu scrolls : evil and the rhetoric of legitimacy in medieval Japanese Buddhism /
This is a study of visual and textual images of the mythical creature tengu from the late Heian (897-1185) to the late Kamakura (1185-1333) periods. Popularly depicted as half-bird, half-human creatures with beaks or long noses, wings, and human bodies, tengu today are commonly seen as guardian spir...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.