The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
244 CHAPTER TEN the worship of foreign kami had angered native kami. To appease the native kami, they drowned the image in a can ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 10.3 The Importation of Chinese Buddhism 245 Under Emperor Temmu (r. 672-86), a Chinese form of government was ...
246 CHAPTER TEN Nara Buddhism was primarily a state cult, with little impact on the general populace, but Buddhist ideas and pra ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 247 10.4 The Heian Period (804-1185) In 788, a young monk named Saicho (Dengyo Daishi; 767-822) left the cor- ...
248 CHAPTER TEN Honen, Shinran, and Nichiren-spent their early monastic careers at Mount Hiei and were largely motivated in thei ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 249 body and speech into harmony through the use of the mudras and mantras taught by Mahavairocana. Then, by a ...
250 CHAPTER TEN (978-circa 1025)-reveal how Buddhism functioned in the life and world- view ofJapanese society in general (see a ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 251 10.5.1 Zen Overcoming strong opposition from Mount Hiei, Myoan Eisai (1141-1215) established the first Zen ...
252 CHAPTER TEN and now in order to exhaust the limits of thinking. When one sits in medita- tion, for instance, Dagen recommend ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 253 seek political influence. Dagen's thought was virtually forgotten, even in his own school, from the fiftee ...
254 CHAPTER TEN systematizing Pure Land doctrines under the title The Treatise on the Selection of the Nembutsu of the Original ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 255 sary to repeat the name of Amida in order to be assured a place in his par- adise? (See Strong EB, sec. 8. ...
256 CHAPTER TEN After pursuing many paths, his studies eventually took him to Mount Hiei, where he was drawn by the nationalisti ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 257 from the new religions in the twentieth century. It is no accident that the largest of the new religions a ...
258 CHAPTER TEN the newly enfranchised, who adopted a self-consciously rustic version of the Zen style as a badge of their newfo ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 259 old age Ikkyii wrote explicitly erotic poetry to compare his mistress, Lady Mori-a blind street singer, so ...
260 CHAPTER TEN extent of supporting this order, but were not to pass judgment on the govern- ment or disturb social peace and u ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 261 him to devise a comprehensive system of koan study, drawing on many tradi- tions, that has served ever sin ...
262 CHAPTER TEN independence from the Confucian ideologues who had previously supported them. In 1868 they restored the imperial ...
BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 263 would aid the nation in its efforts toward modernization. At the same time, borrowing a page from the soci ...
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