Saicho (767-822), the founder of the Tendai School, is one of the great masters of Japanese Buddhism. This edition, which includes a new preface by the author,

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy sym