Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo in Kyushu by Allan G. Grapard
English | February 25th, 2016 | ISBN: 1474249000, 1350044938 | 321 Pages | PDF | 3.27 MB
In Mountain Mandalas Allan G. Grapard provides a thought-provoking history of one aspect of the Japanese Shugendo tradition in Kyushu, by focusing on three cultic systems: Mount Hiko, Usa-Hachiman, and the Kunisaki Peninsula. Grapard draws from a rich range of theorists from the disciplines of geography, history, anthropology, sociology, and humanistic geography and situates the historical terrain of his research within a much larger context.