Vows for the Masses: Eison and the Popular Expansion of Precept-Conferral Ceremonies in Premodern Japan Author(s): Lori Meeks Source: Numen, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2009), pp. 1-43 Published by: Brill Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27643350 Accessed: 08-07-2019 21:44 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Brill is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Numen This content downloaded from 132.174.255.3 on Mon, 08 Jul 2019 21:44:00 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms