%0 Book %T Neither monk nor layman: clerical marriage in modern Japanese Buddhism %A Jaffe, Richard M. %S Buddhisms [4] %D 2001 %I Princeton Univ. Press %C Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] %@ 069107495X %G English %F 354577077 %O Richard M. Jaffe %O Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and index %X Buddhism comes in many forms, but in Japan it stands apart from all the rest in one striking way - the monks get married. This study addresses the emergence of an openly married clergy as a momentous change in the history of modern Japanese Buddhism %L 294.3/61 %K Buddhist priests %K Marriage %K Japan %K Family relationships %K Religious aspects %K Buddhism %K History %K Priests, Buddhist %K 1868-1945 %9 Text