Bernard Faure is, since 2006, the Kao Professor of Japanese Religion in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.
After its transmission to Japan, Chinese Tiantai Buddhism developed into a namesake school (Tendai) based not only at Enryakuji 延暦寺 on Mount Hiei 比叡山, but also at Onjōji 園城寺 (also known as Miidera 三井寺). While preserving the main principles of its origin in China, Japanese Tendai also took on remarkable characteristics under the influence of Esoteric Buddhism. This aspect was known as Taimitsu 台密 (the esoteric teaching of Tendai), by opposition to Tōmitsu 東密 (the esoteric teaching of Shingon 真言, based on Tōji 東寺 Temple in Kyoto). Taimitsu developed in particular a discourse on nonduality centered on the notion of susiddhi (‘perfect realization’). This study highlights some of these innovations, mainly using the evidence gleaned from a major Tendai compendium compiled in the early fourteenth century, the Keiran shūyōshū 渓嵐拾葉集 [Leaves Gleaned from the Mountain Streams].
目次
An Evolving Tradition 217 The Keiran shūyō shū 221 Onward to Susiddhi 223 Applications of the Susiddhi Model 228 The Butsugen Maṇḍala 228 The Lotus Maṇḍala 230 Triune Deities and Divine Triads 232 Triads and Heptads 235 From Topology to Architecture 238 The Three Torii of Hie 241 Relics and Jewels 242 The Susiddhi in Shingon 243 Coda 246 Bibliography 248
