scholarly journals The Doctrinal Origins of Embryology in the Shingon School

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahiko Kameyama
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Buddhist Monk ◽  
Esoteric Buddhism ◽  
Medieval Japan ◽  
Six Elements

In this article, I discuss the significance of embryological knowledge, such as the red and white drops and the five developmental stages of the embryo, in medieval Shingon esoteric Buddhism. Specifically, I examine the writings of Kakuban, an eminent Shingon Buddhist monk in early medieval Japan, and point out that, according to Kakuban, embryological knowledge was connected with the six elements, which were fundamental to Shingon conceptions of ontology. In other words, by constructing embryological theories, medieval Shingon monks such as Kakuban attempted to make a correlation between abstract and distant cosmologies and the life and death realities of their daily lives.

scholarly journals Nenbutsu Orthodoxies in Medieval Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron P. Proffitt
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Esoteric Buddhism ◽  
Japanese Buddhism ◽  
Medieval Japan ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine

New approaches to Buddhist doctrine and practice flourished within and across diverse lineages and sub-lineages in early medieval Japan. The early-modern and modern sectarianization of Japanese Buddhism, however, has tended to obscure the complex ways that the very idea of orthodoxy functioned in this fluid medieval environment. In this article, I explore attempts to account for the diversity of views regarding] nenbutsu orthodoxy in trea- tises composed by scholars monks affiliated with Mt. Kōya and Mt. Hiei. In particular, this article contextualizes how these monks constructed the idea of an esoteric nenbutsu by drawing upon earlier taxonomies developed in the Tendai school as well as the East Asian esoteric Buddhist corpus. Ultimately, this study concludes that the esoteric nenbutsu was not the provenance of a particular school or sect, but rather served as a polemical construct designed to subsume the diversity of approaches to nenbutsu praxis as monks in diverse lineages competed with one another to define esoteric Buddhism in the early medieval context.

scholarly journals Review article: Jesus’ resurrection in Joseph’s garden

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Estelle Dannhauser
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Faith Community ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Community Church

The article is a lengthy review of the book Jesus’ resurrection in Joseph’s garden by P.J.W. (Flip) Schutte. The book represents a quest to trace the relationship between Jesus’ resurrection, myth and canon. Schutte finds the origin of events underlying the biblical canon in proclamation. His focus in the book is the proclamation of the death and resurrection of Christ, which, in its developmental stages, hinged on the life and death of the historical Jesus. Proclamation developed into a mythical narrative that became the foundational myth for the Christ cult, validating its existence and rituals. With the growth and institutionalisation of the faith community (church), came an increased production of literature, causing the power-wielding orthodoxy to identify a body of literature containing the ‘truth’ and ‘correct teaching’, thus establishing the authoritative canon. In, through, behind and beyond Jesus of Nazareth, Schutte has perceived a canon behind the canon: a God of love. In Jesus, the man of myth with historical roots who has become to us the observable face of God, Schutte confesses the kerygma to open up before him. The proclamation therefore extends an invitation to join in a mythological experience and an encounter with God whose love is preached in the metaphor called Easter.

Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Soryo System.

1989 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 501
Author(s):  
Carl Steenstrup ◽  
Jeffrey P. Mass
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Japan

Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Soryo System.

1990 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
William Wayne Farris ◽  
Jeffrey P. Mass
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Japan
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