Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

798 brian o. ruppert chroniclers (kike ) at other great medieval temple multiplexes such as the fourteenth-century Mt. Hiei (Abe ...

. dharma prince shukaku 799 the inheritor (though he was clearly the most influential and innova- tive figure in its history). ...

800 brian o. ruppert works of the Go-ryū collection, Raijo transmitted more than one hun- dred and twenty fascicles to his disci ...

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68. TACHIKAWARYŪ Nobumi Iyanaga It is challenging to write about the Tachikawa-ryū in brief, because almost all of what has eve ...

804 nobumi iyanaga certainly his addition, drawn from his own imagination (for example, Yūkai’s assertion that the first discipl ...

. tachikawa-ry 805 “cross-transmissions”), even if he would later transmit only one of the lineages he had received. One impo ...

806 nobumi iyanaga month of the same year. These events are all established in historical records. According to some thirteenth- ...

. tachikawa-ry 807 probably of the Sanbōin-ryū tradition, without any peculiar features, and no traces of sexual teachings ar ...

808 nobumi iyanaga It is difficult to determine the reasons for these suspicions of the Tachikawa-ryū. They possibly stemmed fro ...

. tachikawa-ry 809 Shingon center of] Tōji and the Tendai school, but these days, they have spread so widely that everyone tr ...

810 nobumi iyanaga in the first scroll. Although I cannot go into details in the limited scope of this essay, these lineages are ...

. tachikawa-ry 811 The ritual of “that teaching” described in the second scroll is truly surprising, in part involving sexual ...

812 nobumi iyanaga In a sense, it is an embryological ritual, and one with an alchemical character. Nevertheless, the ritual cre ...

. tachikawa-ry 813 Ekai’s Juhō-yōjin shū or from a work by Yūkai’s master, Kaisei (?–1367), who noted a very short extract of ...

814 nobumi iyanaga ) or oral transmissions. There are many of them, to this date.... (T. 2456.79:849a10–13) Yūkai’s strategy of ...

69. LOOKING BACK AND LEAPING FORWARD: CONSTRUCTING LINEAGE IN THE SHINGISHINGON TRADITION OF JAPAN Donald Drummond Until recent ...

816 donald drummond ritually, iconographically, and doctrinally such a well-developed and sophisticated system that there was le ...

. looking back and leaping forward 817 yogic practices, on commonalities of understanding within specific temple complexes, an ...