Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryōiki of ... - Keikai, Nakamura Kyoko - Google Books

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This is the first collection of Buddhist legends in Japan, and these stories form the repertoire of miraculous events and moral examples that later Buddhist priests used for preaching to the people. As Kyokai describes his own intentions, "By editing these…