Merit-making and rituals of piety
Laypersons have always played a central role in the wider Buddhist community, offering support to monastics through making meritorious donations to the sangha. These rituals and practices generate positive karma for the ritual, and have been expanded to sacred objects as well as monastics.
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| Aizen-myôô, the Esoteric King of Lust: An Iconological Study | Goepper, Roger | 1993 |
| Amour, colère, couleur: Essais sur le bouddhisme au Japon | Frank, Bernard | 2000 |
| Bon Odori in Honolulu | Hacker, Shyrle | 1956 |
| Buddhism: Flammarion Iconographic Guides | Frédéric, Louis | 1995 |
| Creating Devotional Art with Body Fragments: The Buddhist Nun Bunchi and Her Father, Emperor Gomizuno-o | Fister, Patricia Jean | 2000 |
| Descriptive Notes on the Rosaries (Jiu-dzu) as Used by the Different Sects of Buddhism in Japan | James, J. M | 1881 |
| An Early Work by Kôen in Cologne | Goepper, Roger | 1983 |
| From the Extraordinary to the Ordinary: Images of the Bodhisattva in East Asia | Gomez, Luis O | 1987 |
| Horyuji Treasures at Ueno Museum | Japan Times | 9 Apr. 1994 |
| Iconography of the Buddha Images in Japan: A Comparative Study Japan-India | Bakshi, Dwijendranath N | 1987 |
| Icons and Relics in Eison's Religious Activities | Groner, Paul | 2001 |
| Idolatry and Inherent Existence: The Golden Calf and the Wooden Buddha | Corless, Roger J | 1996 |
| Japanese Votive Pictures: The Ikoma Ema | Holtom, Daniel Clarence | 1938 |
| Lay and Monastic Forms of Pure Land Devotionalism: Typology and History | Andrews, Allan Albert | 1993 |
| On the Reliefs of Eternity and Presence in the Two Kinds of Merit-transference in 'Ôsô' and 'Gensô' | Ienaga, Saburô | 1978 |
| Review: Jewel in the Ashes, by Brian Ruppert | Deal, William Edward | 2002 |
| Review: Visions of Power, by Bernard Faure | O'Leary, Joseph S | 1997 |
| Review: Visions of Power, by Bernard Faure | Tanabe, George J | 1997 |
| Sacred Treasures of Mount Kôya: The Art of Japanese Shingon Buddhism | Honolulu Academy of Arts, ed. | 2002 |
| The Shapeshifter Fox: The Imagery of Transformation and the Transformation of Imagery in Japanese Religion and Folklore | Bathgate, Michael Robert | 2001 |
| 'Show My the Place Where My Mother Is!': Chûjôhime, Preaching, and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan | Glassman, Hank | 2004 |
| Some Thoughts on the Icon in Esoteric Buddhism of East Asia | Goepper, Roger | 1975 |
| Some Thoughts on the Icon in Esoteric Buddhism of East Asia | Goepper, Roger | 1979 |
| A Study of the Kannon-kyo Emaki in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Fukuhara, Yasuko | 1985 |
| Technique and Personal Devotion in the Zen Exercise | Dumoulin, Heinrich | 1963 |
| The Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara | Chandra, Lokesh | 1988 |
| Der Unsterbliche Leib: Ahneneffigies und Reliquienporträt in der Porträtplastik Chinas und Japans | Croissant, Doris | 1990 |
| Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Buddhism | Faure, Bernard | 1996 |
| The Worship of Miroku in Japan | Goodwin, Janet Ruth | 1977 |
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