Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Overview of the Book -- On Translation -- Conventions -- References -- 1 Early Historical Contexts (Protohistory to 645) -- Buddhism's Transmission to Yamato: The Nihon shoki Narrative -- Asuka Buddhism (552-645) -- References -- Further Reading -- 2 Ancient Buddhism (645-950) -- Hakuhō-Period Buddhism (645-710) -- Nara-Period Buddhism (710-794) -- Early Heian Period Buddhism (794-950) -- Women in Ancient Japanese Buddhism -- References -- Further Reading -- 3 Early Medieval Buddhism(950-1300): The Dawn of Medieval Society and Related Changes in Japanese Buddhist Culture -- Middle Heian- and Late Heian-Period Buddhism (950-1185) -- Early and Middle Kamakura-Period Buddhism (1185-1300) -- References -- Further Reading -- 4 Late Medieval Buddhism (1300-1467): New Buddhisms, Buddhist Learning, Dissemination and the Fall into Chaos -- Late Kamakura-Period and Early Muromachi-Period Buddhism -- Women and Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhism -- References -- Further Reading -- 5 Buddhism and the Transition to the Modern Era (1467-1800) -- Late Muromachi-Period Buddhism (1467-1600) -- Early and Middle Edo-Period Buddhism (1600-1800) -- References -- Further Reading -- 6 Modern Buddhism (1800-1945) -- Buddhism in the Transition to the Modern Period -- Meiji Restoration -- Meiji-Period Anti-Buddhist Sentiments -- Buddhist Responses to Anti-Buddhist Sentiments -- Japanese Buddhists Overseas: Scholars and Missionaries -- The Study of Buddhism as an Academic Discipline -- Buddhist New Religions -- Japanese Buddhism and the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945) -- References -- Further Reading -- 7 Buddhism Since 1945 -- Buddhism in the Allied Occupation -- Buddhist New Religions in Postwar Japan -- Buddhist New New Religions -- The Kyoto School -- Critical Buddhism.

Women in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism -- Traditional Buddhist Lineages in Contemporary Japan -- Contemporary Buddhist Rituals: Monastic and Lay -- Buddhism in Contemporary Japanese Culture -- Prospects -- References -- Further Reading -- Character Glossary -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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