Saicho : : The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School / / Paul Groner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Groner, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

Saicho (767-822), the founder of the Tendai School, is one of the great masters of Japanese Buddhism. This edition, which includes a new preface by the author, makes available again a classic work on this important figure’s life and accomplishments. Groner’s study focuses on Saicho’s founding of the great monastic center on Mount Hiei, the leading religious institution of medieval Japan, and his radical move to adopt for purposes of ordination the Mahayana bodhisattva precepts--a decision that had far-reaching consequences for the future of Japanese Buddhist ethical thought, monastic training and organization, lay-clerical relations, philosophical developments, and Buddhism-state relations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF CHARTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE. BACKGROUND: BUDDHISM DURING THE LATE NARA PERIOD -- PART I BIOGRAPHY OF SAICHŌ -- CHAPTER TWO. EARLY YEARS -- CHAPTER THREE. THE YEARS ON MOUNT HIEI -- CHAPTER FOUR. VOYAGE TO CHINA -- CHAPTER FIVE. RETURN TO JAPAN -- CHAPTER SIX. RELATIONS WITH KŪKAI -- CHAPTER SEVEN. THE PROPAGATION AND DEFENSE OF THE TENDAI SCHOOL -- CHAPTER EIGHT. THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE BODHISATTVA PRECEPTS -- PART TWO SAICHŌ'S VIEW OF THE PRECEPTS -- CHAPTER NINE. THE ROLE OF THE PRECEPTS IN SAICHŌ'S THOUGHT -- CHAPTER TEN THE PROVISIONAL HĪNAYĀNA ORDINATION (KEJU SHŌKAI) -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. SAICHŌ'S SOURCES FOR THE PERFECT PRECEPTS: THE LOTUS SŪTRA AND THE FAN WANG CHING -- CHAPTER TWELVE. THE MAJOR INFLUENCES ON SAICHŌ'S VIEW OF THE PRECEPTS -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE INTEGRATION OF THE TEACHINGS OF JAPANESE TENDAI -- PART THREE. THE EFFECTS OF SAICHŌ'S REFORMS DURING THE EARLY HEIAN PERIOD -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. SAICHŌ'S DISCIPLES AND THE PRECEPTS -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX