Esoteric Zen : : Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan / / Stephan Kigensan Licha.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; Volume 73
• VerfasserIn: Licha, Stephan Kigensan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 73.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (357 pages)

"When a Zen teacher tells you to point at your mind, which part of your body do you point at? According to the Japanese master Chikotsu Daie (1229-1312), you should point at the fistful of meat that is your heart. Esoteric Zen demonstrates that far from an outlier, Daie's understanding reflects the medieval Buddhist mainstream, in which tantric teachings and Zen were closely entwined movements that often developed within the same circles of thinkers and texts. Drawing on newly discovered manuscript materials, it shows how medieval practitioners constructed a unique form of Zen by drawing on tantric doctrinal discourses"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Three Buddhas Sitting in a Man?d?ala -- 1. Outside the Teachings: Enni, Jo¯myo¯, and the Common Conceptual Space of Zen and Tendai in Early Medieval Japan -- 2. The Vicissitudes of Turning Upward: Enni's Three Mechanisms and Their Contexts -- 3. The Zen of Maha¯vairocana: Enni on Zen and the Tantric Teachings -- 4. The Heart of Flesh in the Body of the Teachings: Variations on Esoteric Zen in Enni, Chikotsu, and Kokan -- 5. Means of Mediation: Ko¯an Interpretation from Enni to So¯to¯ Lineages -- 6. The Topology of the Womb: Enni, Chikotsu, Do¯han, and the Beginnings of Zen Embryology -- 7. The Womb Was Their Ko¯an: Zen Embryology in Late Medieval Genju¯ and So¯to¯ Lineages -- Conclusions: Tantra, Zen, and Oranges -- Bibliography -- Index.