Buch, Englisch, 620 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 826 g
Buch, Englisch, 620 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 826 g
ISBN: 978-0-231-11287-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press
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- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
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Acknowledgments xiInteraction of Kukai with the Nara Clergy xv
Illustrations xix
Introduction 1
1. Kukai and (Very) Early Heian Society: A Prolegomenon - 19 Buddhism and the Ritsuryo State - 24 Kukai and His Alliance with the Nara Clergy - 41
Part I Origins, Traces, Nonorigin - 672. Kukai's Dissent: Of Mendicancy and Fiction - 69 Kukai's Youth: Confucian Learning vis-à-vis Buddhist Practice - 71 The State, Ubasoku, and Popular Buddhism - 76 Lacuna of Esotericism: The Sangho shikki as a Self-Portrait - 83 Apologetics or Apologia: The Fictivity of the Roko shikki - 96 The Dilemma of Kukai's Fiction and Mikkyo - 105
3. Journey to China: Outside Ritsuryo Discourse - 113 Foreign Language Studies and Esoteric Buddhism - 114 Master Hui-kuo and the Study of Esoteric Rituals - 120 Mantra and Abhiseka, the Genealogical Technologies - 127 Abhiseka as a General Theory of Enlightenment - 141
4. (No) Traces of Esoteric Buddhism: Dharani and the Nara Buddhist Literature - 151 The Zomitsu/Junmitsu Scheme and Its Limitations - 152 (In)visibility of Esotericism in the Nara Buddhist Culture - 154 Dharani Exoteric and Esoteric Functions - 159 Esoteric Dharani in the Nara Ritual Space - 176 Discourse, Taxonomy and Kukai's Bibliography - 176
Part II Cartography -185 5. Category and History: Constructing the Esoteric - 187 "Shinghon School" as an Ambivalence in Kukai's Writings - 189 Tokuitsu and Kukai: The Delineation of Mikkyo, the Esoteric - 204 Proof of Dharma Kaya's Preaching of the Dharma - 213 Troping the Lineage: The Construction of the Esoteric Nagarjuna - 220
6. The Discourse of Complementarity Constructing the Esoteric II - 237 On the Ritual of the Golden Light Sutra - 238 The Exoteric and the Esoteric Reading of Prajna Patamita - 247 From Dharani to Mantra: A Paradigm Shift - 260
Part III Writing and Polity - 2757. Semiology of the Dharma; or the Somaticity of the Text - 275 Of Voice, Letter, and Reality - 278 Syntax of the World-Text - 281 On the Science of Writing - 288 Mantra as Textile Production - 293 Letters, Life Breath and the Cosmic Palace - 300
8. Of Mantra and Palace: Textualizing the Emperor, Calamity and the Cosmos - 305 Rectification of Names: The Ritsuryo State - 310 Ritsuryo Buddhism and the Discourse of Calamities - 315 Refiguration of the Emperor: A Reinterpretation of Kukai's 10 Abiding Stages - 323Mantra and the New Science of Calamities - 334The Mishuho and the Ritual Reconstruction of the Imperial Palace - 344
9. Genealogy of Mantra and Kukai's Legacy - 359 The Emperor's Coronation Abhiseka (sokui kanjo) - 367 Groth of Extra-ritsuryo Esoteric Monastaries - 371 Landscape of the Mediaeval Shinghon School - 376 Institution of the Dharma Emperor - 379 Conclusion: Kukai and Writing - Toward the Kukai of Extra-Sectarian History - 385
Post-Script - 399Problems of the Category of Heian Buddhism - 399Kukai and the Limitation of Kuroda's Kenmitsu Theory - 416Glossary - 429Abbreviations - 449Notes - 451Selected Bibliography - 541Index - 579