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- Title
Biography as Scripture.
- Authors
Blum, Mark L.
- Abstract
Records of individuals who achieved rebirth in the pure land of Amitãbha Buddha began as a genre of hagiography in eighth-century China and began appearing in Japan in the late tenth century. Thereafter these ōjōden were produced repeatedly throughout Japanese history in greater numbers than in China, and came to function as a form of prooftext for the establishment of the Pure Land school. Focusing on an apocryphal Indian ōjōden created in the late Heian period, this paper evaluates the form and content of ōjōden as a unique genre of Japanese religious literature exhibiting influences from monastic bibliography, miracle texts, and the category of adbhutadharma in Indian Buddhist literature.
- Subjects
CHINA; JAPAN; INDIA; BIOGRAPHIES; AMITABHA (Buddhist deity); BUDDHIST hagiography; PURE Land Buddhism; JAPANESE religious literature
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2007, Vol 34, Issue 2, p329
- ISSN
0304-1042
- Publication type
Article