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A debt to Godai’in Annen: Taimitsu and the yogin consecration (2025)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2025). A debt to Godai’in Annen: Taimitsu and the yogin consecration. In Ō. R. S. K. K. R. K. Ōkubo Ryōshun sensei koki kinen ronbunshū kankōkai (Ed.), Tendaigaku to shoshisō 天台学と諸思想 (756-704). Hōzōkan

A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan (2023)
Journal Article
Dolce, L. (in press). A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan. Ars orientalis, 52, 40-74. https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.3987

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 ow... Read More about A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan.

A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin (2022)
Journal Article
Dolce, L. A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin. Studies in Chinese Religions, 8(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2021.2015139

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 trans... Read More about A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin.

Gazing into the Abyss: Representations of The Apāya in Thai Cosmological Parks (2022)
Thesis
Wang, R. Gazing into the Abyss: Representations of The Apāya in Thai Cosmological Parks. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Cosmological parks, utayan sawan narok, are a curious phenomenon that is widely visible in the Thai Buddhist landscape. These parks create a space in which different cosmic realms, literary scenes, historical figures and events, and anecdotes from th... Read More about Gazing into the Abyss: Representations of The Apāya in Thai Cosmological Parks.

The Yōtenki: kami identities in medieval Sannō shintō (2022)
Thesis
Sala, E. The Yōtenki: kami identities in medieval Sannō shintō. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

My thesis focuses on Medieval Japan, in particular on the cult of the deities of the Hie shrines, near Kyōtō. This is known as Sannō shintō, and the deities themselves as Sannō (mountain sovereigns). Informed by Tendai Buddhism and linked to the main... Read More about The Yōtenki: kami identities in medieval Sannō shintō.

“And the zasu Changed his Shoes”: The Resurgence of Combinatory Rituals in Contemporary Japan. (2021)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2021). “And the zasu Changed his Shoes”: The Resurgence of Combinatory Rituals in Contemporary Japan. In G. Bulian, & S. Rivadossi (Eds.), Itineraries of an Anthropologist (151-180). Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-527-8/008

It is often assumed that the combinatory practices that have characterised Japanese religious history were wiped away by the separation of Buddhism and Shinto imposed by the Meiji restoration. Yet field evidence attests that shinbutsu rituals are sti... Read More about “And the zasu Changed his Shoes”: The Resurgence of Combinatory Rituals in Contemporary Japan..

The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources (2016)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2016). The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources. In A. Andreeva, & D. Steavu (Eds.), Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions (253-310). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004306523_009

Recent investigations in Japanese temple archives have brought to light medieval documents of diverse provenance, which present the process of generation of the human book-body as a template for the highest Buddhist attainment. These sources expound... Read More about The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources.

Possession and Exorcism in Japanese Religions (2015)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2015). Possession and Exorcism in Japanese Religions. In J. P. Laycock (Ed.), Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion across Cultures (178-185). ABC-CLIO

Daiei hakubutsukan zô no “Sanshû no jingi” zu: shinbutsu shûgô bijutsu to 19seiki Igirisu ni okeru Nihonteki shinkuretisumu rikai 大英博物館蔵の「三種の神器」図 − 神仏習合美術と１９世紀イギリスにおける日本的シンクレティズム理解 [The British Museum “Three Regalia Scrolls:” Shinbutsu Art and the Nineteenth-Century Representation of Japanese “Syncretism”] (2013)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2013). Daiei hakubutsukan zô no “Sanshû no jingi” zu: shinbutsu shûgô bijutsu to 19seiki Igirisu ni okeru Nihonteki shinkuretisumu rikai 大英博物館蔵の「三種の神器」図 − 神仏習合美術と１９世紀イギリスにおける日本的シンクレティズム理解 [The British Museum “Three Regalia Scrolls:” Shinbutsu Art and the Nineteenth-Century Representation of Japanese “Syncretism”]. In L. Dolce, & T. Mitsuhashi (Eds.), Shinbutsu shûgô saikô「神仏習合」を再考　[Rethinking Syncretism in Japanese Religion] (338-382). Bensei shuppan

"Shinbutsu shûgô” o saikô suru tameni「神仏習合」を再考するために [Revisiting the Concept of kami-buddha Combination: Issues and Perspectives] (2013)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L., & Mitsuhashi, T. (2013). "Shinbutsu shûgô” o saikô suru tameni「神仏習合」を再考するために [Revisiting the Concept of kami-buddha Combination: Issues and Perspectives]. In L. Dolce, & T. Mitsuhashi (Eds.), Shinbutsu shûgô saikô [Rethinking Syncretism in Japanese Religion] (5-26). Bensei shuppan