... Terms, Index. $34.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper.) The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen . By David Edward Shaner . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1985 . (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) x, 250 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography...

...Steven Heine The Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse . By Ryūichi Abe . New York : Columbia University Press , 1999 . xviii, 593 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 545...

... . Poetics and Prosody in Early Medieval China: A Study and Translation of Kukai's Bunkyo Hifuron . Ann Arbor, Mich .: University Microfilms . Conze Edward , ed. 1957 . Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā . Serie Orientale Roma 13. Rome : Is. M.E.O . Conze Edward . 1958 . Buddhist Wisdom Books...

...Stanley Weinstein Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 * Kukai: Major Works, translated, with an account of his life and a study of his thought. By Yoshito S. Hakeda. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1972. xiv, 303 pp. 1 For the sake...

... ritsuryo state and traveled and studied in China under Hui-kuo, especially the role of the abhiseka or esoteric ordination ritual. Kukai then imported esoteric Buddhism by establishing a basic distinction between the exoteric (kengyo) and esoteric (mikkyo) dimensions of discourse. The two chapters...

... ofJapanese Shingon, Kukai (744 835). Kukai, also known as Kobo Daishi, heavily influenced the Heian court and, ever since, has been regarded as a profound religious teacher. Hare discusses two of Kukai's shorter writings to show that not only did Kukai brilliantly deal with the problems of translation from...

... scholars would have shied away. TIMOTHY BROOK University of Toronto JAPAN The Weaving ofMantra: Kukai and the Construction ofEsoteric Buddhist Discourse. By R Y U I C H I ABE. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999- xviii, 593 pp. $40.00 (cloth). This is a remarkable book about one of the most...

... Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 As the subtitle of Philip L. Nicoloff's book indicates, Sacred Kōyasan takes its reader on a journey to Mount Kōya today, and also through its history and that of its founder, Kōbō Daishi Kūkai. It begins with a description of the Nankai train trip that brings travelers...

..., in the development of Jodoism in Japan, the salvation of women was the keynote. Third, a.lapse in his sense of justice, conspicuous because of its rarity, is evident in his estimation of Saicho (Dengyo Daishi) and Kukai (Kobo Daishi), the two most prominent leaders of Heian Buddhism. A glance at sections 2 and 3...

... work, he proves himself the best writer there has ever been of English literature in a Japanese setting. Japanese Pilgrimage deals with the Shikoku Pilgrimage of Eighty-Eight Stations devoted to K6b5 Daishi (Kukai), and is structured, loosely, around Statler's own pilgrimage, which he performed on foot...

... be especially useful and instructive to those who are familiar with the language of phenomenology, one would hope that this phenomenological inquiry concerning Kukai and Dogen would venture into more critical examination. For example, it would be instructive to compare the bodymind experience with the aesthetic...

... literature in a Japanese setting. Japanese Pilgrimage deals with the Shikoku Pilgrimage of Eighty-Eight Stations devoted to K6b5 Daishi (Kukai), and is structured, loosely, around Statler's own pilgrimage, which he performed on foot in 1971. In his account, however, he does not hesitate to jump forward...

... of the roles of the Buddhist monks Saichō (767–822), Kūkai (774–835), and Yōsai in early tea history is particularly noteworthy. After reading Farris's detailed and nuanced analysis, no one can any longer say that Saichō and Kūkai were the first to bring the tea plant to Japan or that Yōsai brought matcha...

...), virtually cut off from the main cultural and historical events on Kyushu and Honshu (Hokkaido was so far as to be almost inaccessible). Shikoku was the birthplace of Kukai (774-835), the founder of Shingon Buddhism in Japan, and it is to his memory that the circumambulatory pilgrimage on this island...

... the entire Genji monogatari in the original must be very rare; how many of them have supplemented this achievement with a knowledge of such works as the Roko sbiki SPiMfSS by Kukai gE written in 797? It is hardly the sort of book to tempt many readers to surmount its difficulties of style, but Igarashi's...

... to pilgrimage lore (though not the historical record), the henro was initiated by Shikoku native and Shingon sect founder Kôbô Daishi (Kûkai, 774–835 CE), who to this day remains a popular figure because of his reputation as a miracle worker. Legend has it that instead of dying a conventional death, he went...

... Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kukai and Dogen. By DAVID EDWARD SHANER. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) x, 250 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $34.50 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). In both Eastern and Western philosophical...

... of six studies investigates significant aspects of the Buddhist tradition in Japan: the Sangha, Maitreya, and the extraordinary career of Kukai as master and savior. Kitagawa's special interest in transformations in Buddhist history is also well represented. Finally, four articles treat the modern phase...

... tradition. And a series of six studies investigates significant aspects of the Buddhist tradition in Japan: the Sangha, Maitreya, and the extraordinary career of Kukai as master and savior. Kitagawa's special interest in transformations in Buddhist history is also well represented. Finally, four articles...

.... And the articles by Thomas P. Kasulis and Roger Tashi Corless on Kukai and Shinran, respectively, similarly focus on both China and Japan. The individual chapters are excellent examples of modern scholarship wellresearched, precisely annotated, and generally derived from larger programs of individual study...