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Chapter 3

Published in Columbia University Press eBooks • Feb 4, 2014
Authors:
Mark Teeuwen
,
Kate Wildman Nakai
,
Miyazaki Fumiko

Abstract

This chapter describes how the Buddhist clergy in Japan were once corrupt and driven by greed. It examines how monastics, from being always respected and treated well even by people of high status, now merely prided themselves over the favors they received, and no longer went around with begging bow...

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