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Miscellaneous Musings on Mūlasarvāstivāda Monks: The Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Revival in Tokugawa Japan |
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Clarke, Shayne
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| Source |
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.33 n.1 |
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| Date | 2006 |
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| Pages | 1 - 49 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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| Publisher Url |
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Shayne Clarke is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
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| Keyword | Ubu; Kūkai; Myōzui; Gakunyo; Eigon; Unshō; Mūlasarvāstivāda; Vinaya |
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| Abstract | Kūkai’s (774–835) curriculum for the education of Shingon monks broke
away from Japanese religious orthodoxy by rejecting the Dharmaguptaka
Vinaya or Vinaya in Four Parts (四分律) traditionally studied in East
Asia in favor of another Indian tradition that had only just been introduced
into China a century earlier: the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya. Kūkai’s admonitions,
however, appear to have fallen on deaf ears, at least until the Tokugawa
period. In the Tokugawa period two Shingon scholar-monks—Myōzui 妙瑞
(1696–1764) and Gakunyo 學如 (1716–1773)—turned their attention back to
Kūkai, the founder of their tradition. When Myōzui and Gakunyo realised
that their lineage had been ignoring Kūkai’s instructions on monastic discipline for nearly one thousand years, these monks advocated a revival of
Kūkai’s monastic curriculum. Revival attempts, however, were to meet with
fierce opposition, and a series of monastic debates ensued, debates which continued well into the Meiji period. The present paper is an attempt to survey
the sources for this revival movement, tracing the Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition
down through the Tokugawa and Meiji periods and beyond, reaching the
somewhat unexpected conclusion that this monastic tradition is still alive in
present-day Japan. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 2250 |
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| Created date | 2007.08.03 |
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| Modified date | 2017.08.29 |
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