Description:
Japanese Buddhism is one of the most influential, most diverse and vibrant traditions of Buddhism. Even in the so-called "West" various forms of Japanese Buddhism have long since taken root. This book is a comprehensive and current overall presentation of this fascinating religion in a European language. Picturing the current state of international research, Christoph Kleine delivers reliable, some of them seriously in Western languages and beyond highly specialized scholarly discourses, accessible information on the history, theory and practice of the most important pedagogical traditions, monastic orders, movements, sects and denominations of Japanese Buddhism. The presentation covers the entire period between the official introduction of Buddhism to Japan in the 6th Century and the present from