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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Shingon (Sect)
ISBN : UVA:X030237887
Author : Anonim
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008608247
Includes excerpts from 'The Mahavairocana Sutra' and I-Hsing's 'Commentary of the Sutra'.
Author : Jinhua Chen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003853534
This book explores trans-cultural and cross-border transmission and transformation of Esoteric Buddhism in East Asia, focusing on its manuscript culture and the transborder transmission of Esoteric Buddhist texts. In East Asia, Esoteric Buddhism’s influences can be seen across all levels of society: not only in that it achieved a recognizable sectarian identity, but also because elements of esoteric teachings were absorbed by other religious schools, influencing their philosophical tenets and everyday practices. The influence was not confined to the religious sphere: scholars have been paying more and more attention to the significance of Tang Esoteric Buddhism in relation to material culture and the dissemination of Esoteric Buddhist technologies in South, Central, and East Asia. No matter how one looks at a maṇḍala—an integral feature of esoteric practice—or the uncannily expressive statues of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas or Yidam that come in all shapes and sizes, or the murals that depict the variegated, mysterious themes of the esoteric tradition, one can always recognise the profound connection between art and Esoteric Buddhism. Esoteric Iifluences also abound in East Asian literature across different genres, displaying its unique characters both in poetry and prose. Likewise, in architecture, one can readily make out the enigmatic, colorful and distinctive elements characteristic of the esoteric tradition. Monks initiated into the esoteric lineages not only brought Buddhist classics and practices to China but also advanced knowledge in astronomy, calendarial calculations and mathematical theories. The chapters in this volume focus on two major aspects of textual Esoteric Buddhism—its manuscript culture and transborder transmission. This book will be beneficial to advanced students and researchers interested in Religious Studies, History and Buddhist studies. It was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Chinese Religions.
Author : Philip L. Nicoloff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791479292
Takes the reader on a pilgrimage to Mount Kōya, the holy Buddhist mountain in Japan.
Author : Pamela D. Winfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199333707
Winner of the Association of Asian Studies's Southeast Conference Book Prize (2014) Does imagery help or hinder the enlightenment experience? Does awakening involve the imagination or not? Can art ever fully represent the realization of buddahood? In this study, Pamela D. Winfield offers a fascinating comparison of two pre-modern Japanese Buddhist masters and their views on the role of imagery in the enlightenment experience. Kukai (774-835) believed that real and imagined forms were indispensable to his new esoteric Mikky? method for "becoming a Buddha in this very body" (sokushin jobutsu), yet he also deconstructed the significance of such imagery in his poetic and doctrinal works. Conversely, Dogen (1200-1253) believed that "just sitting" in Zen meditation without any visual props or mental elaborations could lead one to realize that ''this very mind is Buddha'' (sokushin zebutsu), but he also privileged select Zen icons as worthy of veneration. In considering the nuanced views of both Kukai and Dogen anew, Winfield updates previous comparisons of their oeuvres and engages their texts and images together for the first time. In so doing, she liberates them from past sectarian scholarship that has pigeon-holed them into iconographic/ritual vs. philological/philosophical categories. She also restores the historical symbiosis between religious thought and artistic expression that was lost in the nineteenth-century disciplinary distinction between religious studies and art history. Finally, Winfield breaks new methodological ground by proposing space and time as organizing principles for analyzing both meditative experience and visual/material culture. As a result, this study presents a wider and deeper vision of how Japanese Buddhists themselves understood the role of imagery before, during, and after awakening.
Author : Kūkai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231059337
Kukai, more commonly known by the honorific Kobo Daishi, was one of the great characters in the development of Janpanese culture. He was active in literature, engineering, calligraphy, and architecture and is represented in this work in terms of his major effort--the introduction of esoteric Buddhism from China, which resulted in the formation of the Shingou sect still active in Japan. Eight of his works are presented here.
Author : Ronald S. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Shingon (Sect)
ISBN : WISC:89079564506
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015081568936
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UCLA:L0057935231
Author : World Fellowship of Buddhists
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030289911
Author : Mario Poceski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118610350
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed and is practiced in this region. These newly-commissioned essays provide fresh scholarly perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, and practices. Offers a comprehensive and balanced survey of Buddhism within East and Central Asia, from the time of the Buddha through to the present day Provides fresh perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, traditions, doctrines, practices, and institutions – on topics spanning gender roles, tantric rituals, and the spread of Zen into Europe Brings together cutting-edge research by an interdisciplinary and international contributor team, including historians, literature scholars, and historians, as well as those from religious studies Presents a panoramic view of the extraordinary richness and variety of local Buddhist expressions and practices within Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Tibetan, cultures
Author : Morgan Gibson
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015013245637
Author : Ernest Kay
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0900332883
Author : Morgan Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000114174984
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Translating and interpreting
ISBN : UCSC:32106005443178
