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Materializing and Performing Prajñā: Jōkei’s Mañjuśrī Faith and the Kasagidera Restoration
Author Quinter, David
Source Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
Volumev.43 n.1
Date2016
Pages17 - 54
PublisherNanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所
Publisher Url http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
Location名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
NoteDavid Quinter is an Associate Professor of East Asian religions in the Program in Religious Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta.
KeywordJōkei; Mañjuśrī; kōshiki; Kasagidera; Maitreya; medieval; Nara Buddhism
AbstractThis article illuminates the significance of the Mañjuśrī cult during Jōkei’s (1155–1213) Kasagi years and his innovative synthesis of material, textual, and ritual culture. The study of such medieval Nara scholar-monks as Jōkei suffers from lingering biases that privilege the Buddhist schools strongest now over the many other movements thriving in medieval Japan. Their activities are typically cast as reactionary responses to popularizing tendencies championed elsewhere rather than as creative transformations of Buddhist teachings and practices in their own right. Even amid revisionist studies, the textual concerns of scholar-monks are often contrasted with the “lived religion” in such practices as icon veneration, pilgrimage, and simplified chanting rituals. However, this article uses Jōkei’s involvement in the Kasagidera restoration and the Mañjuśrī cult, including his composition of a kōshiki devoted to Mañjuśrī (Jp. Monju), to show how these same practices were integral to the concerns of Nara scholar-monks. The online supplement includes a complete annotated translation of Jōkei’s Monju kōshiki.
Table of contentsJōkei’s Kasagidera Restoration and the Great Wisdom Sutra 20
Jōkei’s Shin’yōshō and the Mother of Awakening 27
Jōkei’s Monju kōshiki 35
Concluding Reflections 42
References 47
ISSN03041042 (P)
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Created date2016.07.11
Modified date2017.09.14



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