Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

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ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN JAPAN Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian ...

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59. THE DISSEMINATION OF ESOTERIC SCRIPTURES IN EIGHTHCENTURY JAPAN Clemente Beghi Japanese esoteric Buddhism is traditionally ...

662 clemente beghi (Sapta-buddhika sūtra, Kokūzō-bosatsu-shomon-shichibutsu-darani-kyō T. 1333) (Hamada 1986, 483, Kushida 1964, ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 663 monk Gyōga (729–803), and Eichū (743–816) (Hamada 1986, 484). It is not surpris ...

664 clemente beghi Vajraśekhara Sūtras, were also known. Missing from this list are the voluminous commentaries, mainly composed ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 665 This scarcity of scholarship on Nara-period esotericism is, not sur- prisingly, ...

666 clemente beghi seventh century) or the Essential Incantation of the Eleven-faced One (Avalokiteśvara-ekādaśamukha-dhāraṇī, ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 667 most important site was without doubt Daianji. Not only had Dōji lived there, b ...

668 clemente beghi This general reliance on the potency of dhāraṇī spells had serious political implications, as it conferred a ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 669 Among other esoteric practices of the period was the gumonji-hō, thought to hav ...

670 clemente beghi Material Culture: Statuary and Ritual Paraphernalia Rituals did not consist only of dhāraṇī recitation; many ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 671 once at Ashukuji ; various sets of the Seven Healing Buddhas (Shichibutsu Yakus ...

672 clemente beghi Even vajras can be found, such as the three-pronged vajra (sanko- sho ) from Nantaisan, now in the Nara Natio ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 673 temples, sometimes not, spent their lives in the mountains trying to attain enl ...

674 clemente beghi practice was indeed very common, even among important monks of the large state temples, who dedicated vast am ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 675 Table 1. Esoteric texts imported in Japan before Saichō and Kūkai (from Kushida ...

676 clemente beghi Table 1 ( cont. ) Author/translator Text name Written in Imported in Tanwulan Before 395 737 ? 350–360 737 ? ...

. the dissemination of esoteric scriptures 677 Table 1 ( cont. ) Author/translator Text name Written in Imported in Xuanzang 6 ...