When we read about the profundity and complexity of the Buddhist tradition, we are hard pressed to imagine how the earliest Japanese priests propagated this tradition and how the common people accepted it. Kyokai's collection of 'miraculous stories throw much light on this.
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When we read about the profundity and complexity of the Buddhist tradition, we are hard pressed to imagine how the earliest Japanese priests propagated this tradition and how the common people accepted it. Kyokai's collection of 'miraculous stories throw much light on this.
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Add this copy of Miraculous Stories From the Japanese Buddhist Tradition to cart. $55.80, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1973 by Harvard University Art Museums.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xii, 322pp, index, bibliography, appendices, chronology. Purple cloth in jacket. Spine a little faded. Prev owner stamp on front pastedown (under flap), prev owner name on front free endpaper, otherwise excellent. Early in the ninth century a Japanese Buddhist monk name Kyokai compiled 116 stories of Buddhist legends in the Nihon ryoiki drawing on oral traditions transmitted by monk and lay people, and on written traditions, both native and foreign.
Add this copy of Miraculous Stories From the Japanese Buddhist Tradition to cart. $101.51, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by Harvard University Press.
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Good. Dust jacket and edges shows shelf wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Former owner's name on front page. Pages are clean and intact. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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