Executive Committee, IABS, eds. Esoteric Buddhist Studies: Identity in Diversity. Proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies, Koyasan University, 5 Sept.–8 Sept. 2006. Kōyasan: Kōyasan University, March 2008. xix + 444 pp. ISBN 978-4-87528-010-6.
Table of Contents
Foreword (Namai Chisho) … vii
Conference Schedule … xv
Conference Participants … xvii
Papers
Establishing Kōyasan and Molding Shingon Theory: the Intersecting Paths of Saichō and Kūkai (Takagi Shingen) … 1
The Origins of Kūkai’s Thought on the Ten Abodes of Mind (Sanja Jurković) … 17
Transcendence and Immanence in Kūkai’s Vision of Shingon (David Gardiner) … 21
Kūkai’s Theory of Ryōbu (Inui Hitoshi) … 31
Basic Reading Comprehension of Classical Chinese Texts (Minami Masahiro) … 35
Durch kulterelle Differenzen verursachte Probleme eines wahren und korrekten Verständnisses buddhistischer Schriften Erläutert an Beispielen aus einer Übersetzung von gausgewählten Schriften Kōbō Daishi Kūkai’s (C. Yūhō Jobst) … 39
A Study on the Status and Function of Esoteric Buddhist Language (Liu Zeliang and Liu Zhengping) … 45
Kōbō Daishi’s Buddhist Language: Buddhist Syntax found in the Kaidai Texts (Li Zheng Rong) … 51
Reports from the Chinese Kūkai Research Society … 55
Kūkai’s Proof of the Orthodoxy of Shingon Buddhism: the Tablet of Tripiṭaka Master Amoghavajra Preserved in the Stele Forest (Beilin) Museum, China (Ōshiba Shōen) … 59
The Origin of the Fodingzun sheng tuoluoni and its Place in the Development of Buddhist Thought in China (Hendrik van der Veere) … 63
The Dialogue Format in Kūkai’s Hizō hōyaku (Shizuka Jien) … 67
The Modern Significance of Shingon Esoteric Buddhist Meditation (Satō Ryūgen) … 79
A Reconsideration of the Program of the Goshichinichi Mishuhō (Karen J. Mack) … 85
Distinctive Ornaments in Paintings of the Konpon Daitō of Kōyasan (Nakayasu Mari) … 91
Ryōtai and the Belief in the True Words of Brilliant Light in Tokugawa Japan (Niels Guelberg) … 97
Translating Ritual: Methodological Reflections on the Transmission of Esoteric Buddhist Ritual Culture to East Asia (Richard K. Payne) … 101
Shingon Esoteric Buddhist Rituals: The Rituals of Kōyasan (Fujita Kōkan)… 113
Kūkai’s Philosophy of Intimacy: a Paradigm in Japanese Thought (Thomas P. Kasulis) … 123
Kūkai’s Concept of Causation (Murakami Yasutoshi) … 133
Kūkai’s Bonji Shittan jimo narabi ni shakugi (Thomas Eijō Dreitlein) … 137
Indian Thought and Japanese Thought: Concerning the Prajñāpāramitānaya-sūtra (Matsunaga Yūkei … 149
The Buddhist Permutations of Consciousness (Tadeusz Skorupski) … 155
Vitapāda, Śākyamitra, and Āryadeva: on a Transitional Stage in the History of the Guhyasamāja Exegesis (Tomabechi Tooru) … 171
Śrīdhara and His Works on the Yamāri Cycle (Kuranishi Kenichi) … 179
An Interim Report of the Study on Gaṇacakra: Vajrayāna’s New Horizon in Indian Buddhism (Shizuka Haruki) … 195
Which bKra shis rnam gyal Wrote the Renowned Tibetan Mahāmudrā Manual? … (David Jackson) … 199
Pilgrimage to the Crystal Mountain in Dolpo by the Japanese Monk, Kawaguchi Ekai (Okuayama Naoji) … 207
The Vajrāvalī maṇḍala series in Tibet (Mori Masahide) … 223 [ PDF ]
Mitrayogin’s Collection of One Hundred Maṇḍalas and their Iconography: a Handscroll in the Hahn Cultural Foundation (Tanaka Kimiaki) … 243
The Mahākāla Maṇḍala in Sādhanamālā No.312 (Yamauchi Takeshi) … 249
Sacrifice in the Kālikā-purāṇa (Maeda Chisato) … 253
Newar Buddhist Manuscripts Copied in Modern Tibet: from the Collection of the Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Nepal (Yoshizaki Kazumi) … 257
The Problem of Tantric Sacrifice (Mahābali) in Newar Buddhism (Iain Sinclair) … 261
Adhimukti and Sūtra-Recitation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā (Furusaka Kōichi) … 267
Dharmakīrti on Mantras and their Efficiency (Vincent Eltschinger) … 273
Is the Ultimate Cognition of the Yogin Conceptual or Non-conceptual? Part 2: Introducting the Problem in the Final Section of the Tantristic Tattvasiddhi with Analysis and Translation (Ernst Steinkellner) … 291
On the Pāramitānaya and the Mantranaya: Comparison of Interpretations by Later Indian Buddhist Masters (Ōmi Jishō) … 307
A Study on Mañjuśrīkīrti’s āryamañjuśrīnāmasaṃgītiṭīkā: Focusing on its Textual Characteristics (Sudan Shakya) … 311
A Comparison of Chinese and Tibetan Transliterations of the Sanskrit Sarvadurgatipariśodhana-uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇī (Chen Shu-Fen) … 317
A Reconsideration of Esoteric Buddhist Mantra Talismans, with a Focus on Excavated Examples from Dunhuang (Sakade Yoshinobu) … 323
Chinese Influence on the Thought and Techniques of Tachikawa-ism (Umekawa Sumiyo) … 327
A Preliminary Study of the Sanskrit Sections in the Zhang Shenwen hua fanxiangjuan (Unoki Motoyuki) … 331
Ceremonies for Ritual Boundaries in Huagau, a Folk Religion of Taiwan (Lin Cheng-yi and Lin Cheng-wei) … 339
The Social Implications of Pilgrimage: Focusing on the Shikoku Eighty-Eight Sacred Places Pilgrimage (Yamauchi Kiyoshi) … 341
The Intimage Bond of the Aesthetic and the Ascetic in the Dynamics of Mikkyō Rituals (Grazia Marchianò) … 345
Dating the Eight Defects Theory (Wang Yiming) … 351
Cultural Heritage and Digital Technologies: the Case of Kōyasan University (Fujiyoshi Keiji) … 361
Social Inclusion and Buddhist Welfare Services (Yamaguchi Kōshō) … 367
George Akiyama’s Kōbō Daishi Ku=kai: Searching for the Self in a Manga Spiritual Biography (Mark W. MacWilliams) … 369
Esoteric Buddhism and Western Philosophy (Yoshida Kōseki) … 373
The Tibetan Book of the Dead and W. Y. Evans-Wentz (Chiba Yōkō) … 377
Esoteric Buddhism and Islamic Mysticism: an Interdisciplinary Overview of the Sacred Arts and Mystical Literature (Amir H. Zekrgoo) … 381
A Comparison of Kūkai’s Theory of the Three Mysteries and Thomas’ Sacramentology (Peter Baekelmans) … 399
Education to Ecumenism: the Method of Inter-Religious Dialogue in the Teaching of Msgr Luigi Giussani (Ambrogio Pisoni) … 403
Variegated Lotus, A Portrait of Mitch Kapor (Christal Whelan) … 405
A Modernist Intellectual’s Approach to Mahāyāna Buddhism: Minakata Kumagusu’s Rediscovery of Tantric Buddhism in the West (Tamura Yoshiya) … 409
Panel Summaries
Panel 1: Esoteric Buddhist Ritual and Art … 415
Panel 2: The Avataṃsaka-sūtra and the Concept of Adhiṣṭhāna … 419
Panel 3: Aspects of the Role of Material Culture in the Esoteric Buddhism of Tang China and Early Heian Japan … 423
Panel 4: The Role of Practice and Faith the Study of Religion … 427
Panel 6: Religions in a Changing World: Towards Inter-religious Dialogue … 437
Panel 7: Issues in Japanese Spiritual Care … 441
Afterword (Fujita Kōkan) … 443