The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto No Tamenori's Sanboe Volume 97

af Edward Kamens

When the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would be accessible for her. He did so in the form of the illustrated works of fiction (monogatari) that appealed to women readers of her time and class. The text has survived in later manuscripts; the illustrations, if they ever existed, have not. This revised translation recreates Sonshi's experience of receiving this multi... (Læs mere)