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The Weaving of Mantra: Kûkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse - Couverture souple

Abé, Ryûichi

 
9780231112871: The Weaving of Mantra: Kûkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0231112874 ISBN 13 : 9780231112871
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Ryûichi Abé presents the most thorough and innovative study to date on the Buddhist figure Kûkai (774 - 835) -- one that constitutes a radically different approach to the research on early Japanese religious history. Kûkai is generally credited with the formal establishment of tantric -- or esoteric -- Buddhism in Japan and as the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism. Abé contends that the importance of Kûkai's transmission of esoteric Buddhism to Japan lay not in the foundation of a new sect but in his creation of a general theory of language grounded in the ritual speech of mantra.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ryuichi Abe is Kao Associate Professor of Japanese Religious Studies in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the coauthor of Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan-Poems, Letters, and Other Writings, and has been a recipient of the Philip and Ruth Hettleman Award for distinguished teaching.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231112874
ISBN 13 
9780231112871
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
620
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