This week’s footnote is a continuation of last week’s discussion of the gozan, or five mountain system for the ranking of…
This week on the Footnotes to the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: many describe Zen as the religion of the…
This week: the advent of the medieval era brings with it new strands of Buddhism that will radically remake the…
This week: political infighting about purple robes and what it can tell us about Buddhism, political power, and the relationship…
This week, we have a biography of one of the rare women of medieval Japan who was prominent not just…
This week we turn away from politics to discuss religion, art, and the economy during the age of the Ashikaga.…
This week, we investigate the great Zen master Dogen, who was something of an eccentric in his own time but…
This week: what happens when Buddhists go to war? We’ll explore the relationship between the Japanese Empire and the Zen…
This week’s episode is on the structure of the Kamakura bakufu, its war against the Mongol Yuan dynasty of China,…