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The Seven Tengu ScrollsHaruko Wakabayashi

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The Seven Tengu Scrolls

Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

by Haruko Wakabayashi

A study of the Tengu zōshi picture scrolls of 1296, which portray the monks of the great temples as tengu. Wakabayashi uses them to explore medieval ideas of evil, demonic obstruction and the rivalry among Buddhist institutions.

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