Lucia Dolce

Biographic Data

ID5184657
NAMELucia Dolce
GIVEN NAMESLucia
FAMILY NAMEDolce
SIGNATUREDOLCE L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
ORCID0000-0003-0149-5108
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan

    Open AccessLucia DolceARTICLEArs Orientalis2023Cited by: 1

    This study considers how printed scriptures were repurposed in medieval Japan through manuscript interventions. My starting point is the so-called Chū Hokekyō (Annotated Lotus Sutra), a copy of the Lotus Sutra probably printed in the Nara area and owned by the monk Nichiren (1222–1282). On this sutric text Nichiren wrote “notes,” filling the negative space between the lines of the scripture, the upper and lower margins of the printed area, and th…

  • A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis

    Open AccessLucia DolceARTICLEStudies in Chinese Religions2022

    The Yuqi jing [Sūtra of the Yogin] is often listed as one of the most important scriptures of Tantric Buddhism in East Asia, but its content and contribution to the esoteric system have so far been little understood. Traditionally regarded as a translation by Vajrabodhi, it was probably compiled in China in the late eighth century. The role that it played in Chinese Buddhism, however, remains unclear. In medieval Japan on the other hand, the scri…

  • Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan

    Ryuichi Abe, Andrea Castiglioni et al.BOOKRituals of Initiation and…2021

    In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals ( kanjō ) of Buddhist origin. This is the first book to address in a comprehensive way the multiple forms and aspects of these rituals also in relation to other Asian contexts. The multidisciplinary chapters in the book address the origins of these rituals in ancient Persia and India and their developments in China and Tibet, befor…

  • The Practice of Religion in Japan

    Lucia DolceCHAPTERThe Sage Handbook of Modern…2015

  • Taimitsu

    Lucia DolceCHAPTEREsoteric Buddhism and the tantras…2011

    i.e., the esoteric Buddhism of the Tendai lineages, is one of the two major streams of esoteric Buddhism developed in Japan, the other being the better-known Shingon school. The term Taimitsu and its matching term Tōmitsu are documented only in the fourteenth-century Genkō shakusho , composed in 1322 by the Tōfukuji monk Kokan Shiren. The depiction of as the tantric practices of the school founded by Saichō headquartered at Enryakuji is ambiguous…

  • The Worship of Celestial Bodies in Japan

    Lucia DolceARTICLECulture and Cosmos2006

    Interest in the movements of stars and other celestial bodies, as well as belief in their relevance in human affairs, characterized traditional cultures worldwide, and Japan was no exception. In pre-modern Japan astronomy and astrology were equally regarded as science and required specialists able to identify the course of the stars and to decode its consequences in the life of the state and of individuals. Japanese society inherited and develope…

  • Duality and the Kami

    Lucia DolceARTICLECahiers d Extrême-Asie2006

    Le discours médiéval sur les kami a produit de riches représentations iconographiques des divinités. Ces images mettent non seulement au défi l'idée reçue, moderne, selon laquelle le shintō serait une tradition sans images, mais elles témoignent également du fait que de nombreuses manières de visualiser les kami ont été expérimentées au Moyen Âge. De plus, elles mettent au premier plan la variété des performances rituelles relatives aux kami, aux…

  • Criticism and Appropriation

    Open AccessLucia DolceARTICLEJapanese Journal of Religious…1999

    This paper explores the complex relationship between Nichiren and esoteric Buddhism (mikkyd). It first reconsiders the received view of Nichiren as an intransigent and systematic critic of all forms of esotericism, and suggests that his criticism should be understood as a strategy of legitimation. It then attempts to reevaluate Nichiren's interactions with the Buddhism of his time, focusing on the influence that notions developed in Tendai eso te…

  • Canonization and Decanonization

    Cook Cook, Ziony Zevit et al.BOOKCanonization and Decanonization1998

    This volume contains the papers read at the Leiden Conference on Canonization and Decanonization of 9-10 January 1997. The emphasis in this rich and wide-ranging contribution to the subject is on the processes of canonization and decanonization in several religions and on the phenomenon of religious canons as well. It has two sections: (De)canonization and the History of Religions, and (De)canonization and Modern Society. In the first section pro…