Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

738 pamela d. winfield It appears, therefore, that Kūkai may have been the first to see what Yixing and Huiguo (who studied both ...

. the mandala as metropolis 739 standards back home in Japan. Excavations of Japanese capitals at Heijō, Nagaoka, and Heian re ...

740 pamela d. winfield Figure 13. Sino-Japanese bicameral political structure (Piggot 1997, 178). ...

. the mandala as metropolis 741 It is interesting to note, however, that the emperor’s central line of command through the off ...

742 pamela d. winfield In the Diamond World Mandala palace, we observed striking visual analogies to the ideal wang cheng empero ...

. the mandala as metropolis 743 sions. To what extent did Kūkai invent Japanese Shingon, and to what extent did later Japanese ...

64. TAIMITSU: THE ESOTERIC BUDDHISM OF THE TENDAI SCHOOL Lucia Dolce Institutional Questions Terminological Issues: Taimitsu and ...

. taimitsu 745 on Mt. Hiei , is ambiguous in historical terms, affected as it is by the focus on origins and reflecting the co ...

746 lucia dolce in the Early Modern Period” in this volume). The cult of Kumano and Yoshino , in particular, was developed by On ...

. taimitsu 747 Textual sources identify two major divisions since the mid-Heian period: Kawa-ryū (abbreviation of Yokawa-ryū), ...

748 lucia dolce were moved from Mt. Hiei to areas close to the capital. Shōren-in was noteworthy for its political and religious ...

. taimitsu 749 The scant scholarly attention paid so far to Taimitsu in both Japa- nese and Western scholarship seems to me du ...

750 lucia dolce available in print. Contrary to Shingon’s major thinkers, of whose work dedicated collections have been compiled ...

. taimitsu 751 Most of the works mentioned above are now also available in elec- tronic format thanks to the work of the Tenda ...

752 lucia dolce More recent scholarship has produced only a handful of key works. Asai Endō’s remarkable study of early Japanese ...

. taimitsu 753 gested the need to evaluate Tiantai thought and esoteric Buddhism equally, he did not devise a strategy to impl ...

754 lucia dolce commissioned mandalas at Longxingsi. The tantric material that these two scholar-monks brought back to Japan, in ...

. taimitsu 755 of the Tendai community to justify the twofold curriculum established on Mt. Hiei without such hermeneutical un ...

756 lucia dolce T. 848), the Jin’gangding jing ( Kongōchō kyō, T. 865), the Suxidi jieluo jing ( Soshitsujikara kyō, T. 893), th ...

. taimitsu 757 understandings of ritual forms as skillful means to achieve enlighten- ment (usō hōben ), they gave them ontolo ...