Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

898 sarah fremerman aptilon cosmic tableau of universal salvation, choosing rather to isolate par- ticular rites to be performed ...

. goddess genealogy 899 The text narrates a further revelation on the mountain that occurred in 902, in which the female drago ...

900 sarah fremerman aptilon love and fertility that appear in the Chinese sūtras may later have come to be attributed to Nyoirin ...

. goddess genealogy 901 mid-eighth century, Ishiyamadera is one of the oldest temples in Japan devoted to the worship of Kanno ...

902 sarah fremerman aptilon Gongen , the god of Mt. Kimpu (“Golden Peak”), for gold to complete construction of the temple.^27 Z ...

. goddess genealogy 903 episode records a prayer of gratitude offered by the powerful Heian court figure Kujō Kanezane (1149–1 ...

77. LANDMARKS OF ESOTERIC ART IN JAPAN Karen J. Mack Nara Period (710–794) The earliest esoteric art in Japan had already begun ...

. landmarks of esoteric art in japan 905 The Nara Great Buddha at Tōdaiji has been severely dam- aged multiple times, and at p ...

906 karen j. mack throughout the land, with the Nara Great Buddha at Tōdaiji as its center (Miwa 1980, 26). In 741 Emperor Shōmu ...

. landmarks of esoteric art in japan 907 Figure 1. Iconographic drawings for Benevolent Kings Ceremonies, top register. Twelft ...

908 karen j. mack the Nara period as a main image of a ritual for memory retention (gumonji-hō, ), based on the Ākāśagarbha sūtr ...

. landmarks of esoteric art in japan 909 ascribed, or the Prabhūtaratnarāja Bodhisattva (Shuhō ō bosatsu [also Tahō Nyorai ]) ...

910 karen j. mack Figure 2. Images of the various deities of the five directions from the Benevolent Kings Sūtra, center leaf. 1 ...

. landmarks of esoteric art in japan 911 According to the inscription, they were based on Kūkai’s full-scale silk paintings, w ...

912 karen j. mack Figure 3. Diagram of the Tōji Lecture Hall altar based on the Fukanreitōki . (Adapted from Kyoto National Muse ...

. landmarks of esoteric art in japan 913 Figure 4. Fukanreitōki (Diagram of the Tōji Kōdō). Compiled in 922 by Imperial Prince ...

914 karen j. mack original configuration (figure 4).^7 According to this diagram, the altar configuration represents the Benevol ...

. landmarks of esoteric art in japan 915 1764; GMZ 19). It is quite possible that Kūkai envisioned Tōji as an esoteric version ...

916 karen j. mack content and meaning of the Latter Seven Days Ritual, see Mack 2008, 85–89). The images used in this ritual are ...

. landmarks of esoteric art in japan 917 the guise of a floating katsura tree (Konryū Kashō den, GR 5: 546a; Katsuragawa engi, ...