The Resource Bringing Zen home : the healing heart of Japanese women's rituals, Paula Arai
Bringing Zen home : the healing heart of Japanese women's rituals, Paula Arai
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- Summary
- Healing lies at the heart of Zen in the home, as Paula Arai discovered in her pioneering research on the ritual lives of Zen Buddhist laywomen. She reveals a vital stream of religious practice that flourishes outside the bounds of formal institutions through sacred rites that women develop and transmit to one another. Everyday objects and common materials are used in inventive ways. For example, polishing cloths, vivified by prayer and mantra recitation, become potent tools. The creation of beauty through the arts of tea ceremony, calligraphy, poetry, and flower arrangement become rites of healing. Bringing Zen Home brings a fresh perspective to Zen scholarship by uncovering a previously unrecognized but nonetheless vibrant strand of lay practice. The creativity of domestic Zen is evident in the ritual activities that women fashion, weaving tradition and innovation, to gain a sense of wholeness and balance in the midst of illness, loss, and anguish. Their rituals include chanting, ingesting elixirs and consecrated substances, and contemplative approaches that elevate cleaning, cooking, child-rearing, and caring for the sick and dying into spiritual disciplines. Creating beauty is central to domestic Zen and figures prominently in Arai's analyses. She also discovers a novel application of the concept of Buddha nature as the women honor deceased loved ones as "personal Buddhas."One of the hallmarks of the study is its longitudinal nature, spanning fourteen years of fieldwork. Arai developed a "second-person," or relational, approach to ethnographic research prompted by recent trends in psychobiology. This allowed her to cultivate relationships of trust and mutual vulnerability over many years to inquire into not only the practices but also their ongoing and changing roles. The women in her study entrusted her with their life stories, personal reflections, and religious insights, yielding an ethnography rich in descriptive and narrative detail as well as nuanced explorations of the experiential dimensions and effects of rituals. In Bringing Zen Home, the first study of the ritual lives of Zen laywomen, Arai applies a cutting-edge ethnographic method to reveal a thriving domain of religious practice. Her work represents an important contribution on a number of fronts--to Zen studies, ritual studies, scholarship on women and religion, and the cross-cultural study of healing
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages)
- Contents
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- Mapping the terrain
- The way of healing
- Personal Buddhas : Living with loss anad grief
- Domestic Zen : living esosteric wisdom
- The healing power of beauty
- Revealing the healing realm of Zen
- Isbn
- 9780824870362
- Label
- Bringing Zen home : the healing heart of Japanese women's rituals
- Title
- Bringing Zen home
- Title remainder
- the healing heart of Japanese women's rituals
- Statement of responsibility
- Paula Arai
- Subject
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- Buddhism
- Buddhist women -- Religious life
- Buddhist women -- Religious life -- Japan
- Ceremonial Behavior
- Electronic books
- Healing -- Religious aspects | Zen Buddhism
- Healing -- Religious aspects | Zen Buddhism
- Japan
- Japan
- "Multi-User"
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- Religion and Medicine
- Spiritual Therapies
- Women
- Zen Buddhism -- Japan -- Rituals
- Zen Buddhism -- Rituals
- Zen funeral rites and ceremonies
- Zen funeral rites and ceremonies
- RELIGION -- Buddhism | Zen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Healing lies at the heart of Zen in the home, as Paula Arai discovered in her pioneering research on the ritual lives of Zen Buddhist laywomen. She reveals a vital stream of religious practice that flourishes outside the bounds of formal institutions through sacred rites that women develop and transmit to one another. Everyday objects and common materials are used in inventive ways. For example, polishing cloths, vivified by prayer and mantra recitation, become potent tools. The creation of beauty through the arts of tea ceremony, calligraphy, poetry, and flower arrangement become rites of healing. Bringing Zen Home brings a fresh perspective to Zen scholarship by uncovering a previously unrecognized but nonetheless vibrant strand of lay practice. The creativity of domestic Zen is evident in the ritual activities that women fashion, weaving tradition and innovation, to gain a sense of wholeness and balance in the midst of illness, loss, and anguish. Their rituals include chanting, ingesting elixirs and consecrated substances, and contemplative approaches that elevate cleaning, cooking, child-rearing, and caring for the sick and dying into spiritual disciplines. Creating beauty is central to domestic Zen and figures prominently in Arai's analyses. She also discovers a novel application of the concept of Buddha nature as the women honor deceased loved ones as "personal Buddhas."One of the hallmarks of the study is its longitudinal nature, spanning fourteen years of fieldwork. Arai developed a "second-person," or relational, approach to ethnographic research prompted by recent trends in psychobiology. This allowed her to cultivate relationships of trust and mutual vulnerability over many years to inquire into not only the practices but also their ongoing and changing roles. The women in her study entrusted her with their life stories, personal reflections, and religious insights, yielding an ethnography rich in descriptive and narrative detail as well as nuanced explorations of the experiential dimensions and effects of rituals. In Bringing Zen Home, the first study of the ritual lives of Zen laywomen, Arai applies a cutting-edge ethnographic method to reveal a thriving domain of religious practice. Her work represents an important contribution on a number of fronts--to Zen studies, ritual studies, scholarship on women and religion, and the cross-cultural study of healing
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- CN8ML
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Arai, Paula Kane Robinson
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Zen funeral rites and ceremonies
- Healing
- Buddhist women
- Zen Buddhism
- RELIGION
- RELIGION
- Buddhist women
- Healing
- Zen Buddhism
- Zen funeral rites and ceremonies
- Japan
- Religion and Medicine
- Buddhism
- Women
- Spiritual Therapies
- Ceremonial Behavior
- Japan
- Label
- Bringing Zen home : the healing heart of Japanese women's rituals, Paula Arai
- Antecedent source
- not applicable
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Mapping the terrain -- The way of healing -- Personal Buddhas : Living with loss anad grief -- Domestic Zen : living esosteric wisdom -- The healing power of beauty -- Revealing the healing realm of Zen
- Control code
- ocn794700714
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824870362
- Lccn
- 2011017005
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
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- 10.21313/9780824860134
- 40019923971
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- not applicable
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)794700714
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Bringing Zen home : the healing heart of Japanese women's rituals, Paula Arai
- Antecedent source
- not applicable
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Mapping the terrain -- The way of healing -- Personal Buddhas : Living with loss anad grief -- Domestic Zen : living esosteric wisdom -- The healing power of beauty -- Revealing the healing realm of Zen
- Control code
- ocn794700714
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824870362
- Lccn
- 2011017005
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 10.21313/9780824860134
- 40019923971
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- not applicable
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)794700714
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Buddhism
- Buddhist women -- Religious life
- Buddhist women -- Religious life -- Japan
- Ceremonial Behavior
- Electronic books
- Healing -- Religious aspects | Zen Buddhism
- Healing -- Religious aspects | Zen Buddhism
- Japan
- Japan
- "Multi-User"
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- Religion and Medicine
- Spiritual Therapies
- Women
- Zen Buddhism -- Japan -- Rituals
- Zen Buddhism -- Rituals
- Zen funeral rites and ceremonies
- Zen funeral rites and ceremonies
- RELIGION -- Buddhism | Zen
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