Alessandro Poletto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1132931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Poletto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Poletto |
| SIGNATURE | POLETTO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Whole Body of the Thus Come One”
This paper focuses on a radical claim that the Lotus Sūtra makes about itself—namely, that it contains the “whole body of the Thus Come One”—and its influence on material expressions of Lotus Sūtra worship in early medieval Japan. Iconographical strategies adopted in some of the copies of the sūtra produced in this period establish the identification between the scripture and relics by, for example, inscribing each character in a stūpa. The pract…
Tales of Plague and Pestilence
Precepts, the Nenbutsu and Moxibustion
Therapeutics and Botany in Medieval Japan
Pregnancy, Incantations, and Talismans in Early Medieval Japan
Court physicians (ishi or kusushi 医師), officials in the Bureau of Medications, were responsible for the well-being of court aristocracy since the establishment of a centralized state on the Japanese archipelago in the eighth century. Despite an increasing interest in the therapeutic arena of premodern Japan, scholars have tended to emphasize an epistemic divide between physicians and technicians employing other healing modalities, such as Buddhis…
Pregnancy, Incantations, and Talismans in Early Medieval Japan
Court physicians (ishi or kusushi 医師), officials in the Bureau of Medications, were responsible for the well-being of court aristocracy since the establishment of a centralized state on the Japanese archipelago in the eighth century. Despite an increasing interest in the therapeutic arena of premodern Japan, scholars have tended to emphasize an epistemic divide between physicians and technicians employing other healing modalities, such as Buddhis…
Pregnancy, Incantations, and Talismans in Early Medieval Japan
Court physicians (ishi or kusushi 医師), officials in the Bureau of Medications, were responsible for the well-being of court aristocracy since the establishment of a centralized state on the Japanese archipelago in the eighth century. Despite an increasing interest in the therapeutic arena of premodern Japan, scholars have tended to emphasize an epistemic divide between physicians and technicians employing other healing modalities, such as Buddhis…
Therapeutics and Botany in Medieval Japan
Precepts, the Nenbutsu and Moxibustion
“The Whole Body of the Thus Come One”
This paper focuses on a radical claim that the Lotus Sūtra makes about itself—namely, that it contains the “whole body of the Thus Come One”—and its influence on material expressions of Lotus Sūtra worship in early medieval Japan. Iconographical strategies adopted in some of the copies of the sūtra produced in this period establish the identification between the scripture and relics by, for example, inscribing each character in a stūpa. The pract…
Tales of Plague and Pestilence
Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Antioxidants, Aging, Portulaca oleracea (2 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Asian studies (1 work) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (1 work)