Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

818 donald drummond The written intentions (ganmon ) accompanying Kakuban’s last two (the eighth and ninth) performances of the ...

. looking back and leaping forward 819 seventh month of 1116. As Tōji’s chief abbot, Kanjo was also the chief abbot of Kongōbu ...

820 donald drummond referred to as a possessor of such power, and who on visiting Mun- etada provided him with valuable insight ...

. looking back and leaping forward 821 Kakuban and many of his disciples went to Mt. Negoro on his Iwate estate , the first co ...

822 donald drummond Dharma did not lie with its decline or the passage of time. According to Kūkai, performance of esoteric prac ...

. looking back and leaping forward 823 in the west (Amida’s Pure Land) or in any other buddha realm of the ten directions. Thu ...

824 donald drummond at Negoroji , which subsequently became a fully independent and influential center for scholastic study with ...

. looking back and leaping forward 825 doctrine; 2) if the terminology was of established usage, the meaning to which it refer ...

826 donald drummond Tokugawa shogunate began its own policies of consolidation and cen- tralization of power, which from 1601 in ...

70. YŌSAI AND ESOTERIC BUDDHISM Shinya Mano Introduction Yōjōbō Yōsai (1141–1215; also known as Myōan Eisai ), today considered ...

828 shinya mano such as Ganjin (688–763) and Kūkai (774–835). Kokan distinctively suggested that Yōsai should be considered the ...

. ysai and esoteric buddhism 829 Practice of Womb [Realm]), and the Kaihen kyōshu ketsu (Revised Resolutions on the [Nature] ...

830 shinya mano themes play a key role in his thought: a specific visualization tech- nique, the gosō jōjin kan ; the notion of ...

. ysai and esoteric buddhism 831 (Dai Nihon Bukkyō zensho, vol. 115, 505b). Yōsai connected the heart to one of the five step ...

832 shinya mano Furthermore, this visualization practice plays an important role in actualizing the esoteric precepts (samaya ka ...

. ysai and esoteric buddhism 833 woman and man: women symbolized the womb class and the sun; men symbolized the diamond class ...

834 shinya mano kechimyakufu (Lineage Chart of Rengein-ryū).^3 Yōchō established Chōrakuji (in modern Gunma prefecture), which b ...

71. SHINTŌ AND ESOTERIC BUDDHISM Fabio Rambelli A central aspect of Buddhism and a key factor in its successful diffu- sion is i ...

836 fabio rambelli words such as “deity,” “god,” “spirit,” “ghost,” and “ogre.” (Moreover, such beings cannot even properly be c ...

. shint and esoteric buddhism 837 Tantric Buddhism and Local Deities Compared with other forms of Buddhism, tantric Buddhism ...