Research Catalog

Title

Esoteric Zen : Zen and the Tantric teachings in premodern Japan / by Stephan Kigensan Licha.

Author

Licha, Stephan Kigensan

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Details

Description

xiv, 339 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"When a Zen teacher tells you to point at your mind, which part of your body do you point at? According to the Japanese master Chikotsu Daie (1229-1312), you should point at the fistful of meat that is your heart. Esoteric Zen demonstrates that far from an outlier, Daie's understanding reflects the medieval Buddhist mainstream, in which tantric teachings and Zen were closely entwined movements that often developed within the same circles of thinkers and texts. Drawing on newly discovered manuscript materials, it shows how medieval practitioners constructed a unique form of Zen by drawing on tantric doctrinal discourses"--

Series Statement

Brill's Japanese studies library ; volume 73

Uniform Title

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 73.

Alternative Title

Zen and the Tantric teachings in premodern Japan

Subject

• 1185-1333
• Zen Buddhism > Japan > History
• Zen Buddhism > Japan > Doctrines > History
• Tantric Buddhism > Japan > History
• Tantric Buddhism > Doctrines
• Zen Buddhism
• Tantric Buddhism
• Zen Buddhism > Doctrines
• Japan > History > Kamakura period, 1185-1333
• Japan

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-326) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Three Buddhas Sitting in a Maṇḍala -- 1. Outside the Teachings: Enni, Jōmyō, and the Common Conceptual Space of Zen and Tendai in Early Medieval Japan -- 2. The Vicissitudes of Turning Upward: Enni's Three Mechanisms and Their Contexts -- 3. The Zen of Mahāvairocana: Enni on Zen and the Tantric Teachings -- 4. The Heart of Flesh in the Body of the Teachings: Variations on Esoteric Zen in Enni, Chikotsu, and Kokan -- 5. Means of Mediation: Kōan Interpretation from Enni to Sōtō Lineages -- 6. The Topology of the Womb: Enni, Chikotsu, Dōhan, and the Beginnings of Zen Embryology -- 7. The Womb Was Their Kōan: Zen Embryology in Late Medieval Genjū and Sōtō Lineages -- Conclusions: Tantra, Zen, and Oranges -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 24-1216

ISBN

• 9789004536302
• 9004536302
• 9789004541894 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023016227

OCLC

1371747604

Author

Licha, Stephan Kigensan, author.

Title

Esoteric Zen : Zen and the Tantric teachings in premodern Japan / by Stephan Kigensan Licha.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill's Japanese studies library ; volume 73

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 73.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-326) and index.

Chronological Term

1185-1333

Other Form:

Online version: Licha, Stephan Kigensan. Esoteric Zen Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023 9789004541894 (DLC) 2023016228

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1216