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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. (2023). 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.

Towards a Semiotics of Pilgrimage: Ritual Space, Memory and Narration in Japan and Elsewhere (2020)
Book
Padoan, T. (in press). Towards a Semiotics of Pilgrimage: Ritual Space, Memory and Narration in Japan and Elsewhere. De Gruyter

Pilgrimage can be better understood as a particular kind of semiotic activity, that is, as a process of production, transmission, and reception of meaning through languages, texts, and discourses. Research on the topic of pilgrimage seems stalled now... Read More about Towards a Semiotics of Pilgrimage: Ritual Space, Memory and Narration in Japan and Elsewhere.

Sémiotique et anthropologie (2018)
Book Chapter
Padoan, T., & Sedda, F. (2018). Sémiotique et anthropologie. In A. Biglari, & N. Roelens (Eds.), Sémiotique en interface. Éditions Kimé

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.

Buddhism (2015)
Book Chapter
Padoan, T. (2015). Buddhism. In J. P. Laycock (Ed.), Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion Across Cultures (54-59). ABC-CLIO

"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

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

Iconography of Ritual: Images, Texts and Beliefs in the Batō Kannon Fire Ritual (2010)
Book Chapter
Lomi, B. (2010). Iconography of Ritual: Images, Texts and Beliefs in the Batō Kannon Fire Ritual. In A. Michaels, A. Mishra, L. Dolce, G. Raz, & K. Triplett (Eds.), Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia, vol. 1 of Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Rituals (525-545). Harrassowitz Verlag

Icons, Scriptures, and Their Ritual Use: Reflexions on the Nineteenth-Century European Understandings of Japanese Buddhism (2006)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2006). Icons, Scriptures, and Their Ritual Use: Reflexions on the Nineteenth-Century European Understandings of Japanese Buddhism. In S. Murakami-Giroux (Ed.), La Rencontre du Japon et de l'Europe. Images d'une découverte. Actes du troisième colloque d'études japonaises de l'université Marc Bloch (57-78). Publications Orientalistes de France