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- catalog abstract ""The Buddhist priest Kukai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and formal establishment of tantric - or esoteric - Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan and the founding of the Shingon school. In The Weaving of Mantra, author Ryuichi Abe examines this important religious figure and his profound influence on Japanese culture. Abe contends that the importance of Kukai's establishment of esoteric Buddhism lay not in the foundation of the Shingon sect but in his creation of a general theory of language grounded in the ritual speech of mantra." "The Weaving of Mantra embeds Kukai within the fabric of political and social life in ninth-century Japan and explains how esoteric Buddhism played a critical role in many societal changes in Japan - from the growth of monasteries into major feudal powers to the formation of the native phonetic alphabet, kana. As Abe illustrates, Kukai's writings and the new type of discourse they spawned also marked Japan's transition from the ancient order to the medieval world, replacing Confucianism as the ideology of the state."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11023012.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""The Buddhist priest Kukai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and formal establishment of tantric - or esoteric - Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan and the founding of the Shingon school. In The Weaving of Mantra, author Ryuichi Abe examines this important religious figure and his profound influence on Japanese culture. Abe contends that the importance of Kukai's establishment of esoteric Buddhism lay not in the foundation of the Shingon sect but in his creation of a general theory of language grounded in the ritual speech of mantra." "The Weaving of Mantra embeds Kukai within the fabric of political and social life in ninth-century Japan and explains how esoteric Buddhism played a critical role in many societal changes in Japan - from the growth of monasteries into major feudal powers to the formation of the native phonetic alphabet, kana. As Abe illustrates, Kukai's writings and the new type of discourse they spawned also marked Japan's transition from the ancient order to the medieval world, replacing Confucianism as the ideology of the state."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Chronology of Kūkai's interaction with the Nara clergy. -- Introduction. Kūkai and (very) early Heian society: a prolegomenon. -- pt. I. Origin, traces, nonorigin. Kūkai's dissent: Of mendicancy and fiction ; Journey to China: outside Ritsuryō discourse ; (No) traces of esoteric Buddhism: dhāraṇī and the Nara Buddhist literature. -- pt. II. Cartography. Category and history: constructing the esoteric, I ; The discourse of complementarity: constructing the esoteric, II. -- pt. III. Writing and polity. Semiology of the Dharma, or, The somaticity of the text ; Of mantra and palace: textualizing the emperor, calamity, and the cosmos ; A genealogy of mantra: Kūkai's legacy. -- Postscript.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-577) and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 593 p., [4] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0231112866".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "294.3/92 21".
- catalog subject "BQ8999.K857 A34 1999".
- catalog subject "Kūkai, 774-835.".
- catalog subject "Shingon (Sect) Doctrines.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Chronology of Kūkai's interaction with the Nara clergy. -- Introduction. Kūkai and (very) early Heian society: a prolegomenon. -- pt. I. Origin, traces, nonorigin. Kūkai's dissent: Of mendicancy and fiction ; Journey to China: outside Ritsuryō discourse ; (No) traces of esoteric Buddhism: dhāraṇī and the Nara Buddhist literature. -- pt. II. Cartography. Category and history: constructing the esoteric, I ; The discourse of complementarity: constructing the esoteric, II. -- pt. III. Writing and polity. Semiology of the Dharma, or, The somaticity of the text ; Of mantra and palace: textualizing the emperor, calamity, and the cosmos ; A genealogy of mantra: Kūkai's legacy. -- Postscript.".
- catalog title "The weaving of mantra : Kūkai and the construction of esoteric Buddhist discourse / Ryūichi Abé.".
- catalog type "text".