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In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the state and the Buddhist community during the Heian period (794-1185), Asuka Sango details the complex ways in which the emperor and other elite ruling groups employed Buddhist ritual to legitimate their authority.

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 7/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824879310, 978-0824879310
      ISBN10: 0824879317
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      Book Synopsis
      In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the state and the Buddhist community during the Heian period (794-1185), Asuka Sango details the complex ways in which the emperor and other elite ruling groups employed Buddhist ritual to legitimate their authority.

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