Ryōgen and Mount Hiei : : Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century / / Paul Groner.

• VerfasserIn: Groner, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 p.)

Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to its emergence as the most powerful and influential school of Japanese Buddhism in the last half of the tenth century—a position it would maintain throug...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Ryōgen’s Place in the History of the Tendai School
• 2. The Early History of Factionalism within the Tendai School: From Saichō throug the Mid-tenth Century
• 3. Ryōgen’s Early Years
• 4. Ryōgen’s Rise to Prominence
• 5. Ryōgen’s and the Fujiwaras: Patronage and Esoteric Buddhist Ritual
• 6. The Ōwa Debates
• 7. Ryōgen’s Appointments as Head of the Tendai School and to the Office of Monastic Affairs
• 8. The Significance of Ryōgen’s Revival of the Examination System
• 9. Rebuilding the Tendai Establishment on Mount Hiei
• 10. Ryōgen as Zasu: Financing the Spread of Tendai Influence
• 11. Factionalism and Ryōgen’s Efforts to Control the Order
• 12. Ryōgen and the Role of Nuns in Ninth- and Tenthcentury Japan
• 13. Epilogue: Ryōgen’s Posthumous Career
• Appendix 1. Ennin and Yokawa
• Appendix 2. A Note on Morosuke’s Interests
• Appendix 3. Dying Instructions of the Great Archbishop Jie
• Appendix 4. Takamitsu’s Retreat to Tōnomine
• Appendix 5. A Record of the Ōwa Debates
• Appendix 6. Ten Doubts concerning the Hossō School
• Appendix 7. Zōga as an Eccentric
• Appendix 8. Invocation of Tendai Abbot Ryōgen
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index