Esoteric Zen : : Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan / / Stephan Kigensan Licha.
"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 ref...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; Volume 73 |
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| 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) |
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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.