Plotting the Prince : Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Conventions	p. xi
Introduction: The Lay of the Land	p. 1
Faces of Shotoku: Cultic Identities through Time
Ways to Tell a Sacred Life: Hagiographic Imagination in Medieval Japan	p. 23
The Lives of the Prince: Shotoku across Asia	p. 47
Japanese Spirit: A New Buddha for Troubled Times	p. 70
Mapping Shotoku's Tale: Cultic Identities in Place
The Birth of a Legend: Inscribing Shotoku at Shitenno-ji and Horyu-ji	p. 107
Siting Shotoku: Structuring Narrative at Horyu-ji	p. 127
Epilogue: Afterlives	p. 171
Appendix: List of Selected Events in the Life of the Legendary Shotoku	p. 179
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 241
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