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The Mountain as Mandala: Kūkai’s Founding of Mt. Kōya |
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Bushelle, Ethan
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.47 n.1 |
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| Date | 2020 |
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| Pages | 43 - 83 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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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 | Author Affiliations: East Asian Culture and Religions at Western Washington University |
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| Keyword | Kūkai; disembedding; mandala; temple Buddhism; mountain temple |
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| Abstract | This article considers the sociocultural significance of Kūkai’s understanding of Mt. Kōya as a mandala. Locating the context for his formulation of this understanding in his efforts to found Mt. Kōya in the mid-Kōnin era (809–823), it seeks to elucidate its disclosive function. The interpretation is put forward that Kūkai’s mandalic understanding of the mountains disclosed the possibility of a disembedded form of Buddhist life, one in which the human agent is understood to exist outside the social world of the Heian court and the divine cosmos on which it was believed to be grounded. Particular attention is paid to the sociopolitical effects of this disclosure, suggesting specifically that it contributed to the differentiation of religious authority from political power in Japan. To elucidate this process, Kūkai’s founding of Mt. Kōya is situated in a genealogy of monks who founded mountain temples that operated relatively autonomously vis-à-vis the state. Kūkai’s erstwhile collaborator, Saichō, is given special consideration. |
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| Table of contents | The Mountain Temple 46
Saichō’s Founding of a Temple Complex on Mt. Hiei 53
Shōdō’s Founding of a Shrine Temple on Mt. Fudaraku 58
Kūkai’s Founding of a Temple Complex on Mt. Kōya 68
Conclusion 77
References 78 |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| DOI | dx.doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.47.1.2020.43-83 |
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| Created date | 2021.01.08 |
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