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The Buddhist Mythmaking of Defilement: Sacred Courtesans in Medieval Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Michele Marra
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When buddhist institutions directed their efforts to the evangelization of the common people during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1192–1573), they met a set of popular beliefs that were deeply entrenched in the lives of their new audience. In spite of local variations in the names of the deities worshiped and in the details of ritual performances, a series of “defiling” practices that were perceived as dangerous taboos (imi) provided Japanese worshipers with a common denominator that transcended geographic, linguistic, and time boundaries.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 49 - 65
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993

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