Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

878 elizabeth ten grotenhuis Figure 1. Taima Mandala. Distributed by Taimadera, Nara prefecture, Japan. ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 879 Color plate 6. Welcoming descent. Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo: Eliz ...

880 elizabeth ten grotenhuis Color plate 7. Welcoming descent detail. ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 881 The Cleveland work appears to be made solely of green, purple, yel- lo ...

882 elizabeth ten grotenhuis kinds of hair with the onset of puberty and sexual maturation. Then, as we grow older, our hair tur ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 883 Color plate 8. Detail of hungry ghosts from the Womb World Mandala. (C ...

884 elizabeth ten grotenhuis six realms of rebirth. These unfortunate beings suffer from hunger or thirst that can never be sati ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 885 “homage to Amida Buddha.” Repeating the nenbutsu in a prayerful way he ...

886 elizabeth ten grotenhuis the union of believer and Amida, which made birth in the Pure Land an immediate experience. The mos ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 887 Figure 2. Diamond and Womb Worlds. Taisanji, Kobe, Japan. (ten Grotenh ...

888 elizabeth ten grotenhuis deal with this powerful phenomenon. By the late twelfth century, the growing belief in the exclusiv ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 889 Dainichi is visualized within a moon disk, and the moon disk rests on ...

890 elizabeth ten grotenhuis Color plate 9. Amida triad shown in ajikan format associated with the Diamond World. Nara National ...

. human hair in japanese esotericizing embroideries 891 Sentient beings who are mindful of the Buddha [practice nenbutsu] Will ...

892 elizabeth ten grotenhuis Figure 3. Lotus Sūtra Mandala. Izuyama Jinja, Atami, Japan. Photo by author. ...

76. GODDESS GENEALOGY: NYOIRIN KANNON IN THE ONO SHINGON TRADITION Sarah Fremerman Aptilon In a famous passage of the Kakuzen sh ...

894 sarah fremerman aptilon By the time the Kakuzen shō appeared, Nyoirin was already widely known in Japan for her power to gra ...

. goddess genealogy 895 Avalokiteśvara is known to have changed gender in China, from male to female, in the early Song dynast ...

896 sarah fremerman aptilon Muromachi period (1392–1573), salvation from the Blood Pool Hell (chi no ike jigoku ) that was belie ...

. goddess genealogy 897 Yasuro Abe 1989, 115–69; Ruppert 2000, 43–141). As cloistered sov- ereigns (insei ), beginning with Sh ...