1180 index
Nuns, 553–54, 641n, 896n
nunneries
image of eleven-headed Avalokiteśvara
at Hokkeji nunnery, 908
the Lotus Sūtra and, 906, 908
Nyoirin
cintāmaṇi jewel and, 895
Ishiyamadera and, 901–2
Juntei Kannon and, Seiryō Gongen
(female dragon deity), 895,
899–903
nyoirin-kannon mandara, 671
the Ono Shingon tradition and,
893–903
Sarasvatī and, 895
Shōbō’s devotion to, 894n.4, 896,
897n.11, 898, 901–3
Nyoirin Kannon. See Cintāmaṇicakra
Avalokiteśvara
Ŏjin and the transmission of the Womb
World Mandala to Korea, 588
Ōmiya gongen, as Hoshuku bosatsu,
858–59
Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ
chanting of as practice shared by
Chinese and Tibeto-Mongolian
Buddhists, 527–28
Kāraṇḍavyūha sūtra origins of, 449
Putuoshan (Potalaka) contemporary
practices of, 528
Ṣaḍakṣaravidyā sūtra and, 632n.31,
647, 647–48n.68, 649f.6
See also mantras (zhenyan “true word”)
Ōmura Seigai, zōmitsu and junmitsu
distinctions proposed by, 777–78
Onmyōdō
Chinese cosmological thought and,
683–84
cult of Gozu Tennō and, 688–89
esoteric Buddhism and, 683–90,
686–87
introduction to Japan by Korean
Buddhist priest, 685
recent revival of, 690
state regulation of, by the Onmyōryō,
685–86
Sukuyōkyō and, 684, 687–88
See also esoteric Buddhism–in Japan
during the Nara and Heian period
Onmyōryō regulation of Onmyōdō
divination practices, 685–86
Ono lineage
and Hirosawa lineages compared, 747,
816, 896n.10, 987n.7, 988n.16
Kakuban and, 817
Prince Shukaku and, 799
Shingon worship of Nyoirin and,
893–903
See also Taimitsu
“opening the light” empowerment rites,
628n.24, 361–62
ordination, Shingon Risshū nuns,
1014–15
pantheons
analogy of protectors with elements of
landscape architecture, 731
association of Vajrasattva with
formation and systematization of the
esoteric tradition, 102
astral divinities blending Indian and
Chinese imagery, 127–29
“Buddhism is Hinduism for export”
and, 208
central divinities in the esoteric
Buddhist pantheon in China,
90–132
conflation of Buddhist and Daoist
forms of, during the Yuan and Ming,
130
demonic beings and the emergence of
tantric forms of, 210–12
esoteric Buddhist art up to the Tang,
255–60
the five great mantra kings in Japan,
911–14, 912f.3, 913f.4, 920pl.10
former Indian deities in Huayan
pantheon, 837
Hindu Gods incorporated into the
Buddhist pantheon, 104–14, 119,
121–25, 208, 257–59, 260f.2, 654,
911, 946
pre-modern Japanese forms, 838
proto-tantric pantheon within the
Qifo bapusa suoshuo da tuoluoni
shenzhou jing, T.1332, 305
as referents for esoteric Buddhism, 17
Shingon incorporation of Amaterasu,
17
Shuilu paintings featuring Daoist-
Buddhist blending of, 128–29
significance of, for distinguishing
tantra vs. ’esoteric’, 13
see also mandala; The Tōji Lecture
Hall
Peacock King
“Great Peacock King” (Da kongque
wang) spell, 177
Heian-period painting of, 918