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Kukai
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Kūkai
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1972 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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, e
Saicho
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Paul Groner
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Saicho (767-822), the founder of the Tendai School, is one of the great masters of Japanese Buddhism. This edition, which includes a new preface by the author,
The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: David Edward Shaner
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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In a pioneering study, David Shaner uses the resources of phenomenology to penetrate Buddhist philosophy in terms of Kūkai and Dōgen. In addition to this orig
The Body
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: ??·??
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern p
The Weaving of Mantra
Language: en
Pages: 620
Authors: Ryûichi Abé
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-28 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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. I