Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

938 cynthea j. bogel Figure 2. Altar view from the west, karma mandala of twenty-one statues. Lecture Hall, Tōji (Kyōōgokokuji), ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 939 Figure 3. Plan of the karma mandala . White circles are ca. 839; gray circles indic ...

940 cynthea j. bogel Figure 4. Five Wisdom Buddhas Gochi Nyorai. Lecture Hall, Tōji (Kyōōgokokuji), Kyoto. Late sixteenth centur ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 941 Figure 5. Five Great Bodhisattvas Godai Bosatsu. Lecture Hall, Tōji (Kyōōgokokuji), ...

942 cynthea j. bogel Figure 6. Five Great Myōō . Lecture Hall, Tōji (Kyōōgokokuji), Kyoto. Heian period, ca. 839. Wood ( hinoki ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 943 Figure 7. Fudō Myōō (Acalānatha), central statue of Five Great Myōō. Lecture Hall, ...

944 cynthea j. bogel Color plate 11. Kongōsatta Bosatsu (Vajrasattva Bodhisattva), one of the Five Great Bodhisattvas Godai Bosa ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 945 Color plate 12. Dai’itoku Myōō , one of the Five Great Myōō detail. Lecture Hall, T ...

946 cynthea j. bogel Nara-period altars (shown as circles 18–21 in figure 3; Jikokuten statue, figure 8). Additionally, single f ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 947 Figure 8. Jikokuten , one of Four (Deva) Guardian Kings (Shitennō). Lecture Hall, T ...

948 cynthea j. bogel Figure 9. Bonten (Brahma) (west side of altar, detail). Lecture Hall, Tōji (Kyōōgokokuji), Kyoto. Heian per ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 949 Because the plan for the Lecture Hall had been approved by the court by the time Kū ...

950 cynthea j. bogel was realized before Kūkai’s arrival. Completed around 810, its honzon , or main icon, was a seated statue o ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 951 During his time at Takaosanji, Kūkai planned an Abhiṣeka Hall, which was completed ...

952 cynthea j. bogel on texts and iconography but also on material precedents in China, nearly all of them lost, and conceptual ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 953 Ministry of the Imperial Household dated 844.^15 It gives the court’s resolution to ...

954 cynthea j. bogel Benevolent Kings Sūtra, Amoghavajra’s Ninnō nenju giki ( Ritual Commentary [Vidhi] on the Recitation and Co ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 955 The 847 ritual record provides other important details. It identifies the twenty-on ...

956 cynthea j. bogel Figure 10. Map of the Kansai region and ancient capitals (Bogel, Glance, 2009, 33). ...

. the tji lecture hall statue mandala 957 Abhiṣeka, The Diamond Peak Sūtra, The Benevolent Kings Sūtra, and Rites for the Pr ...