index 1179
Zhenyan Buddhist influence on the
evolution of during the Tang
Dynasty, 78
Murakami, Yasutoshi, 1032
Myŏnghyo and Amoghapāśa cult in
Korea, 584–85
Myōe Kōben (1173–1232)
as reincarnation of Ŭisang, 899n.18
close association with Ninnaji, 800
Kegon/Nara school collaborations
with Shingon and, 783–85, 793,
848
mantra of light promoted by, 783–85,
865–68, 874–75
myōō, Śaivite imagery and, 837
nāga rites, as source of antinomian rites
impacting the evolution of esoteric
Buddhism, 20
Nāgārjuna, and the story of the “iron
stūpa”, 317n.13, 348
Nakatomi no harae kunge
Buddhist typology of kami and,
839–40
as referent for esoteric Buddhism, 17
Narōpa, Marpa Chögi Lodrö and, 454
Narōpa’s six yogas
Kagyü tradition and, 454
yan die er fa and yogic practice of
inner heat, 545
See also yoga (yuqie)
nation-state interests
Benevolent Kings Sūtra rituals and, 312,
961–64, 978–79
compilations of Buddhist catalogues
and, 437, 710–11, 717–18
depictions of Chinese government
officials as astral divinities, 128–29
four secret Taimitsu star rituals and,
765–67
invocation of Mahāmāyūrī to ward off
country-wide calamities in Japan,
778n.2
Jugondō practices and, 686
Kūkai’s Ten Abiding Stages of Mind
According to the Secret Mandalas
and, 961
Kuroda’s kenmitsu taisei (exo-esoteric
system) and, 782–83
“Latter Seven Days Imperial Ritual”
Goshichinichi Mishuhō and, 707,
915
magic forbidden in the Regulations
for Monk and Nuns (Sōni-ryō),
667
Meiji Restoration and, 1015–17,
1020–22
Nara period state ideology and Kūkai’s
theories of esoteric Buddhism, 693,
706–7, 709–11, 718
Onmyōryō regulation of Onmyōdō
divination practices, 685–86
state-protection sūtras in the Nara
period, 906
Tokugawa influence on Shugendō
networks, 1018
temple building ordered by Japanese
nobility, 816, 906, 917
temple networks associated with
Tōdaiji and, 663, 905–6
the esoteric lineage of Yōsai and,
833–34
See also institutions
necromancy, 202–3, 271
nenbutsu, 784–85, 821, 866–69, 884–86,
888, 891, 1047
Nichiren’s favoring of, 868
“Nestorian Stele” of Chang’an, 361
nianfo sanmei (buddha recollection)
Anantamukha dhāraṇī family of texts
and, 218
Zhuhong and, 562
Nichiren
academies associated with school of,
1011n.2
daimoku recitation of the title of the
Lotus Sūtra, 1047
historical continuities of Indian tantric
Buddhism and, 1048–49
Suxidi jing classified as tantra by,
758n.14
See also Shinran
Nīlakaṇṭha[ka] T. 1060, and the
popularization of Avalokiteśvara, 333,
526
Ninkan, Izu, Tachikawa-ryū and, 206,
803, 804, 805–6, 807, 813
Ninnōkyō, Ninnō hannyakyō. See
Renwang jing
Northern Dipper rituals, Shintō sōgen
gyōbō and, 1028
number nine
Dainichi in the center of the Diamond
World mandala and, 735–36
divinatory luoshu “magic squares” and,
734
Han Dynasty Chang’an Ming Tang
and, 734–35
Rites of Zhou wang cheng plan and,
733–934