Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai /

Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai / / Paul Groner; ed. by Robert E. Buswell.

Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and ordinat...

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VerfasserIn:
Groner, Paul,
HerausgeberIn:
Buswell, Robert E.,
MitwirkendeR:
Jones, Charles B.,
Stone, Jacqueline,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 47
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions and Abbreviations
  • 1. Introducing the Precepts and Outlining the Chapters of This Book
  • 2. The Brahma’s Net Sutra Precepts
  • 3. Annen’s Interpretation of the Tendai Ordination: Its Background and Later Influence
  • 4. Annen, Tankei, Henjō, and Monastic Discipline in the Tendai School: The Background of Annen’s Futsūju Bosatsukai Kōshaku (Extensive commentary on the universal bodhisattva precept ordination)
  • 5. Japanese Tendai Perfect-Sudden Precepts and the Vinaya
  • 6. The Role of Confession in Chinese and Japanese Tiantai/Tendai Bodhisattva Ordinations
  • 7. The Lotus Sutra and the Perfect-Sudden Precepts
  • 8. Kōen and the Consecrated Ordination
  • 9. Ritually Embodying the Lotus Sutra: An Interpretation of the Consecrated Ordination in the Kurodani Lineage
  • 10. Training through Debates in Medieval Tendai and Seizan-ha Temples
  • 11. Jitsudō Ninkū on Ordinations
  • 12. Doctrinal Discussions of Killing in Medieval Tendai Texts
  • 13. Can the Precepts Be Lost? Can the Precepts Be Violated? The Role of the Record of the Meaning of the Bodhisattva Precepts in Medieval Tendai Discourse
  • 14. Summing Up the Medieval Tendai Precepts and Tracing Those Themes to the Modern Period
  • Afterword
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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