Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism
Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism

Author: Pamela Winfield

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0199945551

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Pamela D. Winfield offers a fascinating juxtaposition and comparison of the thoughts of two pre-modern Japanese Buddhist masters, Kukai (774-835) and Dogen (1200-1253) on the role of imagery in the enlightenment experience.

Visible Mantra: Visualising & Writing Buddhist Mantras
Visible Mantra: Visualising & Writing Buddhist Mantras

Author: Jayarava

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-01-21

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0956692915

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The long awaited print version of the popular Buddhist mantra website: visiblemantra.org. This is a celebration of the visual forms of mantra and other varieties of sacred speech, drawing on Buddhist traditions from India, China, Japan, and Tibet. The book includes all the mantras from the website, plus a few more. Each is presented in four scripts: Siddhaṃ (Bonji 梵字), Lantsa (aka Rañjana), Devanāgarī, and Tibetan (dbu can). Plus seed-syllables, dhāraṇī and Pāli chants. All accompanied by Jayarava's meticulously researched notes and comments, and background reading drawn from Jayarava's blog. An invaluable resource for Buddhist artists, calligraphers and practitioners.

Kukai
Kukai

Author: Kūkai

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780231059336

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Kukai, more commonly known by the honorific Kobo Daishi, was one of the great characters in the development of Janpanese culture. He was active in literature, engineering, calligraphy, and architecture and is represented in this work in terms of his major effort--the introduction of esoteric Buddhism from China, which resulted in the formation of the Shingou sect still active in Japan. Eight of his works are presented here.

The Weaving of Mantra
The Weaving of Mantra

Author: Ryûichi Abé

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1999-06-28

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780231528870

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The great Buddhist priest Kûkai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and establishment of tantric -or esoteric -Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan. In Ryûichi Abé examines this important religious figure -neglected in modern academic literatu