Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

778 james l. ford Shingon sect but also acknowledged within Tendai as well. By means of this taxonomy, which appears often in co ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 779 to recite from memory. Thus, they offer evidence of the sūtras studied and the p ...

780 james l. ford The upshot of this scholarship demonstrates that undeniably “eso- teric” elements were central to Nara monasti ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 781 present Buddhism as an alternative discourse to that of the Confucian ritsuryō s ...

782 james l. ford perhaps just a few prominent examples will suffice to illustrate this phenomenon. Shōbō (832–909), a Shingon s ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 783 beyond the parameters of this essay. With respect to religious uni- fication, Ku ...

784 james l. ford Myōe served the latter half of his career as the abbot of Kōzanji, a temple he revived and which was for a lon ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 785 ingly popular nenbutsu recitation promoted by Hōnen and his follow- ers (Unno 20 ...

786 james l. ford reconciled with the nondual teachings of esoteric sūtras. Hossō, on the other hand, was faced with substantive ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 787 cally substantialistic. Hossō also emphasized the gradualist bodhisattva path to ...

788 james l. ford Jōkei argued for the middle way between the disputed positions and often appropriated the phrase fusoku furi ( ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 789 the tension between Hossō’s gradualist understanding of the bodhisat- tva path a ...

790 james l. ford returned from China. Let us now examine one final example of the impact of esotericism on the Nara establishme ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 791 revival movement led by figures like Eison, Kakujō, Ensei, and Yūgon. In 1236, a ...

792 james l. ford within the Nara schools before Kūkai’s Shingon transmission from China. We then examined the important impact ...

. exploring the esoteric in nara buddhism 793 Nara schools before Kūkai’s Shingon transmission, it is not difficult to underst ...

67. DHARMA PRINCE SHUKAKU AND THE ESOTERIC BUDDHIST CULTURE OF SACRED WORKS SHŌGYŌ IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN Brian O. Ruppert Shukaku ...

. dharma prince shukaku 795 the period, such as the Heike monogatari, may have had a role in ear- lier scholars’ apparent disi ...

796 brian o. ruppert It is interesting to note that the section on Shukaku is absent from the mid-Kamakura work O’muro sōjō ki ( ...

. dharma prince shukaku 797 who in the same era also received roughly thirty (Tendai zasu ki).^5 In each case, the recipient m ...