This study moves beyond the treatment of the original enlightenment doctrine as abstract philosophy to explore its historical dimension. Drawing on a wealth of medieval primary sources and modern Japanese scholarship, it places this discourse in its ritual, institutional and social contexts, illuminating its importance to the maintenance of traditions of lineage and the secret transmission of knowledge that characterized medieval Japanese elite culture.
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This study moves beyond the treatment of the original enlightenment doctrine as abstract philosophy to explore its historical dimension. Drawing on a wealth of medieval primary sources and modern Japanese scholarship, it places this discourse in its ritual, institutional and social contexts, illuminating its importance to the maintenance of traditions of lineage and the secret transmission of knowledge that characterized medieval Japanese elite culture.
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Good. 1999. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xxi & 544 pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Inked underlining and margin notes to text. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Asian Philosophy).
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Very Good+ in very good jacket. First printing, 1999, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 544pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's info to front flyleaf in ink, small date written on bottom of full-title, two front endpapers crinkled at bottom corner, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with rubbing, toning, soil, mild edgewear.
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