Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

858 anna andreeva Ennin and the Rise of Taimitsu Saichō, having established himself on Hiezan in the 780s, obviously felt it nec ...

the deity of miwa and tendai esoteric thought 859 became a widespread belief at Hieizan), and the role of the Sannō deity as a ...

860 anna andreeva deity Hie Sannō 10 , such as the previously mentioned Yōtenki, Sange Yōryakki, and Keiran shūyōshū, contain ma ...

the deity of miwa and tendai esoteric thought 861 performance of Enryakuji and the construction of kami worship at Hieizan sin ...

862 anna andreeva at cultic centers and small practice halls in the vicinity of the Great Ise shrines. The question on whether t ...

74. KŌMYŌ SHINGON^1 Mark Unno Preface The kōmyō shingon , or the mantra of light, is a key practice of the Shingon school. In Ja ...

864 mark unno moral, or religious—can be healed and one can be liberated. In addi- tion to the various functions of the mantra, ...

kōmyō shingon 865 the sand of the divine power of the mantra of light.... The karmic ret- ribution of their sins will be elimi ...

866 mark unno During the Kamakura period (1185–1333) the mantra of light emerged as a perfect match for adherents of the Shingon ...

kōmyō shingon 867 Certainly, without Kūkai having physically transmitted the text to Japan, it would not have had a chance to ...

868 mark unno widespread. In both formal and informal contexts, the mantra of light continues to be one of the most widespread p ...

kōmyō shingon 869 The Tathāgatha Amida arrived, For overcoming calamity and ensuring longevity [Amida] expounded the dharma of ...

870 mark unno sentient beings must have faith in the power of the dharma, in the Buddhist path of practice, to overturn negative ...

kōmyō shingon 871 worlds apart: petitionary prayer in its instrumental mode as a kind of “white lie,” versus the mantra of lig ...

872 mark unno The themes of bright light and meditative absorption are common to both dreams, which Myōe purportedly experienced ...

kōmyō shingon 873 the religious hierarchy of the mantra cancels the secular, conventional hierarchy of values so that the equa ...

874 mark unno the development and dissemination of the mantra of light, its function in petitionary prayer has not necessarily f ...

kōmyō shingon 875 of the Mantra of Light) (Hase 1973, 2:6–14), he emphasizes the more yogic dimensions of the practice through ...

75. COLLAPSING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN BUDDHA AND BELIEVER: HUMAN HAIR IN JAPANESE ESOTERICIZING EMBROIDERIES Elizabeth ten Grot ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 877 the bodhisattvas Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) and Seishi (Mahāsthāmaprāpta) ...