Institute of Buddhist Studies Podcast

Institute of Buddhist Studies Podcast


Making Sense of the Blood Bowl Sutra: Gender, Pollution, and Salvation in Buddhist Sermons from Early Modern Japan

May 02, 2011

Sometime during the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, several variants of an indigenous Chinese sutra known as the Xuepenjing 血盆経 ("Blood Bowl Sutra," Jpns. KetsubonkyÃ…Â), were transmitted to Japan. Emphasizing the i