Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture

Porcu, Elisabetta

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004164710.i-263

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“…The fragmented sentences and repetition of the word "thankful" through a nenbutsu chant intensify a sense of acceptance that derives from true Zen Buddhist doctrines. Porcu (2008) confirms that Neko's final words are indeed a Buddhist prayer, in which he utters the nenbutsu twice, and also expresses his gratitude to the Buddha, twice (Note 29). As the buffoonery and banality of Neko's drunkenness switches in tone to the language of philosophical acceptance, his understanding and practice of Buddhist tenets, adumbrated earlier in the novel, lends gravitas to his death.…”

Section: Autobiographies Of Tomcat Murr and Nekomentioning

confidence: 66%

Feline Affinities Between E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr and Natsume Sōseki’s I Am a Cat

Scullion¹,

Treby²

2021

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Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) was an eclectic writer and voracious reader during a historical period when western literary influence flourished in Japan. This article hypothesizes that the German novel, The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr (1819-1821), by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), is as strong a formative influence in terms of structure and satirical perspective on Sōseki’s novel, I Am a Cat (1905-1907), as other satiric contenders. It pursues this argument by examining correlations between these two polyphonic novels which mix many registers and discourses in a similar way. Biographical, historical and literary analysis underpins this comparison.

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Section: Autobiographies Of Tomcat Murr and Nekomentioning

confidence: 66%

Feline Affinities Between E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr and Natsume Sōseki’s I Am a Cat

Scullion¹,

Treby²

2021

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“…See also Ishige (2001, 246 ff. ) where the author discusses the westernization of Japanese food and Lemke 2008aLemke , 2008bBrü ck et al 2000;Freiberger and Kleine 2011;Porcu 2008. …”

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‘When You Wash the Rice, Wash the Rice.’ About the Cinematic Representation of Cooking and Zen in Doris Dörrie'sHow to Cook Your Life(2007)

Becker

2014

Contemporary Buddhism

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“…The famous Jesuit Zen14For detailed information on the new religious movements mentioned in this paper, seePokorny and Winter (2018). 15On Herrigel, see alsoPorcu (2008); and Brandt and Prohl (in Part ii of this special issue). Lassalle had Obermayer embark on the Zen path, on which he later became the disciple of Nagaya Kiichi, an important Zen populariser in Germany who also held frequent retreats in Austria in the 1970s and 1980s.…”

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Japanese Buddhism in Austria

Pokorny

2021

J. Relig. Japan

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Drawing on archival research and interview data, this paper discusses the historical development as well as the present configuration of the Japanese Buddhist panorama in Austria, which includes Zen, Pure Land, and Nichiren Buddhism. It traces the early beginnings, highlights the key stages and activities in the expansion process, and sheds light on both denominational complexity and international entanglement. Fifteen years before any other European country (Portugal in 1998; Italy in 2000), Austria formally acknowledged Buddhism as a legally recognised religious society in 1983. Hence, the paper also explores the larger organisational context of the Österreichische Buddhistische Religionsgesellschaft (Austrian Buddhist Religious Society) with a focus on its Japanese Buddhist actors. Additionally, it briefly outlines the non-Buddhist Japanese religious landscape in Austria.

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Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture

Cited by 12 publications

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Feline Affinities Between E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr and Natsume Sōseki’s I Am a Cat

Feline Affinities Between E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr and Natsume Sōseki’s I Am a Cat

‘When You Wash the Rice, Wash the Rice.’ About the Cinematic Representation of Cooking and Zen in Doris Dörrie'sHow to Cook Your Life(2007)

Japanese Buddhism in Austria

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