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Gender and Salvation Gender and Salvation
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Women as Preying Snakes and Potential Men Women as Preying Snakes and Potential Men
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Divine Female Bodies Divine Female Bodies
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Mothers and Saviors Mothers and Saviors
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Filial Piety and the Salvation of Women as Mothers Filial Piety and the Salvation of Women as Mothers
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Motherliness and the Creation of a Hokkeji-Centered Relics Tradition Motherliness and the Creation of a Hokkeji-Centered Relics Tradition
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Re-imagining Ideal Motherhood Re-imagining Ideal Motherhood
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The Place of Women in the Order The Place of Women in the Order
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Who Governs the Nuns’ Order? Saidaiji Visions of the Priest-Nun Hierarchy Who Governs the Nuns’ Order? Saidaiji Visions of the Priest-Nun Hierarchy
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Under the Leadership of Women Under the Leadership of Women
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Competing Versions of the Shinnyo Narrative Competing Versions of the Shinnyo Narrative
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7 Representations of Women and Gender in Ritsu Literature
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Published:April 2010
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Abstract
This chapter examines representations of the nuns' order and its place in the Ritsu hierarchy, paying particular attention to the degree to which monks and nuns employed different language when describing the place of women in the order. While the members of the monks' order made it clear that they envisioned themselves as the stewards of the nuns' order, Hokkeji nuns barely mentioned Ritsu monks. Their texts hold Queen-Consort Kōmyō—and not any monk or group of monks—to be the leader of the nuns' order. Moreover, while monks tended to ground their views in scholarly and doctrinal texts, the nuns of Hokkeji chose to preserve a less doctrinal, more lay-oriented approach to salvation that downplayed soteriological obstacles related to the female body and focused instead on the saving power of their venerated patron goddess.
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