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S. A. Thornton. Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugy-ha (1300–1700). (Cornell East Asia Series, number 102.) Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Program. 1999. Pp. xvi, 290. Cloth $28.00, paper $17.00.

As Japan made the transition in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries from its ancient age, when courtiers in the service of the emperor in Kyoto still ruled, to the warrior-dominated medieval age, it also underwent a great religious revival. At the heart of this revival was the yearning for salvation by people who felt that, owing to the decline of the Buddhist Law, they could no longer achieve enlightenment or attain nirvana through their own efforts but needed to rely on the saving power of another. Increasingly, such people were drawn to the Buddha Amida, who had vowed to save all sentient beings who placed their faith in him by transporting them, upon death, to his Pure Land paradise in the western realm of the universe. . . .

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