A history of Japanese Buddhism / Kenji Matsuo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matsuo, Kenji, 1954-

Contributor:

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders--Japan--History.

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.

Japan.

History.

Buddhism--Japan--History.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 264 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations (some) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2007.

Summary:

Kenji Matsuo is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Yamagata University, Japan, and president of the Association for the interdisciplinary Studies of Japanese Buddhism (Nihon bukkyo sogo kenkyukai).

A graduate of Tokyo University, he has also taught at Tsukuba, Princeton, Tokyo and Beijing Foreign Language University, and has lectured at various other institutions, including the State University of New York and SOAS, University of London, as the 2003 holder of the Numata Chair. His special interest is Japanese Buddhism in the medieval period, especially the so-called Kamakura New Buddhism, which he sees as the springboard for much of Japanese culture and way of life as we know it today.

He has written widely on the subject in Japanese, although A History of Japanese Buddhism is his first book in English.

Contents:

Japanese Calendar, Temples, Names and Words xii

1 Characteristics of Japanese Buddhism 6

Marriage of Japanese Monks 6

Buddhist Studies 8

Shaving Hair 8

Changing Names 9

Clothing of Monks 12

Functions of Temples 12

2 Ancient Buddhism - Official Monks 16

Official Introduction of Buddhism 16

Two Types of Religion 16

First Japanese Nuns 17

Shotoku Taishi, Father of Japanese Buddhism 18

Monks as Government Officers 20

Preconditions to Becoming Official Monks 21

Gyoki - Builder of Temples 22

The Ranking of Monks 23

Official Monks 25

Colours of Kesa for Official Monks 26

Pledging the Observance of the Precepts 27

Ordinations at Enryakuji 29

Functions of Ordination 34

Increase in Numbers of Immoral Monks 35

Kukai and Esoteric Bjddhism 36

The World of Tendai Hongaku Shiso 37

Shinto-Buddhism Syncretism 38

Founder of Shugendo, Mountain-Based Ascticism: En-No Ozunu 39

Difference Between Ojo and Jobutsu 40

Amitabha Saint Kuya 41

3 Official and Reclusive Monks 44

Medieval Period of Religious Fund-Raising 44

The Defiled Middle Ages: Without Fear of Defilement 47

The Apostate Middle Ages: Jukai and the Kairitsu 48

Use of Legends 51

History of Research Into Medieval Japanese Buddhism 52

'Leaving Home' 57

The Rise of the Tonseso 60

Shinran, Nichiren and Dogen as Tonseiso 63

Leaving the Kanso 65

Ippen and Ji Sects 67

Essence of Kamakura New Buddhism 68

4 Medieval Japanese Towns and the Rise of Kamakura New Buddhism 71

Definition of a Town 71

'Befitting the four Gods' 72

Stratified Structure of Towns 73

Kamakura New Buddhism and Medieval Towns 74

Temples of Kamakura New Buddhism 76

Purification of Defilement 77

Emergence of Individuals 78

5 Fieldwork in Kamakura 80

The 'Great Buddha' of Kamakura 81

Komyoji 84

Soban Nenbutsu 87

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu 87

Kenchoji 90

Engakuji 93

Sanmon 93

Butsuden 94

Butsunichi-An 94

Shozoku-In 94

6 Black and White: the Symbolism of the Colour of the Kesa 95

Kokue and Byakue 95

7 Era of Religious Fund-raising 101

Chogen 102

Eisai 104

Ninsho 105

Religious Fund-Raising and Ballad of Sansho Dayu 108

Model of the Gutsy Abbot 110

8 Salvation of Outcasts 116

'Non-People' 116

A Bathhouse for Hinin 118

Ritsu Priests and Hinin 119

Salvation Through Faith in Manjusri 121

Nebutsu Priests and the Salvation of Hinin 124

Legends of Honen 126

Salvation Legends by Shinran and Ippen 127

9 Salvation of Women 132

The Kanso's Concept of Women 132

The Kanso's Concept of the Salvation of Women 134

Official Nuns Excluded from the State Precepts-Platforms 135

Exclusion from the Denbo Kanjo 136

Dogen and the Tennyo Jobutsu Theory 137

Salvation of Women by Honen's Order 138

Honen's Concept of the Salvation of Women 139

Honen's Salvation of a Prostitute 140

Foundation of Nunneries by Ritsu and Zen Priests 141

Salvation of Women by Disciples of Dogen, Myoe, Honen and Nichiren 142

Foundation of Precepts-Platforms for Nuns 144

Shinran's Order and the Salvation of Women 145

View of Female Impurity and the Tonseiso 146

10 The Logic of Funerals - the Salvation of the Deceased 149

A Reassessment of 'Funerary Buddhism' 149

The Kanso and Taboo of the Death Impurity 152

'The Precepts of Purity Remain Untainted' 153

'Those Who are Reborn in the Pure Land are Unpolluted' 156

Zen Priests and Funerals 157

11 The New Thinking of Kamakura New Buddhism - Shinran and Eizon 160

The Salvation of the Individual 160

Buddhist Thought of the Kanso 161

The Thinking of the Founders of the New Buddhism 164

Single and Multiple Practices - Jinriki and Tariki 165

Comparison of Shinran and Eizon 167

Buddhahood of Birth Into the Pure Land 169

Observance and Violation of the Precepts 170

Salvation of the Individual 173

12 Rise of the Medieval Towns and Awareness of the 'Individual' 175

Urbanized Places 175

Honen, Dogen and the Townspeople of Kyoto 176

Eizon and the Townspeople 177

Kamakura, Ippen and Nichiren 179

Kamakura New Buddhism of the Tonseiso 182

Shinran and Farmers 183

Outline of Japanese Buddhist History from Ancient Times Until Edo 185

From the First to the Second Type of Personal Religions 189

13 Buddhism in the Muromachi Era 191

Monkan 192

Muso Soseki, an 'Official Monk' of the Muromachi Shogunate 193

Ikkyu Sojun, an 'Extravagant' Monk 196

Nisshin with a Pot on his Head 198

Rennyo and Ikko Ikki 199

Toyotomi Hideyoshi Restructures the Buddhist Community 202

14 Buddhists in the Edo Era - 'Official Monks' of the Edo Shogunate 205

Temple Control Policies in the Early Edo Era 206

Suden and Tenkai: Political Monks of the Shogunate 207

Takuan soho and the Shie (Purple Cloth) Incident 208

Religious Inquisition Book and Danka System 211

Nichio of the Fuju Fuse Subsect 213

Ingen, the Founder of the Obakushu Zen Sect 214

Refuters of Buddhism 215

Development of Research and Education 217

Suzuki Shosan and the Common People 218

Bankei Eitaku and Hakuin Ekaku 219

Pilgrimages in Shikoku and Other Places 221

Development of Shugendo in the Edo Era 223

Edo Culture and Buddhism 223

15 Modern Times and Japanese Buddhism 225

The Meiji Restoration and Buddhist Monks 225

Inoue Enryo: Protect the Nation and Love Reason 228

Kiyozawa Manshi and His Spiritualism 230

Murakami Sensho and Modern Sanskrit Studies 231

Suzuki Daisetu - Introducer of Japanese Buddhism to Other Countries 232

New Religions in the Buddhist Tradition 233

Miyazawa Kenji and Kokuchukai 234

Various New Religions 235

Reviving Japanese Buddhism 237

16 Shikoku Pilgrimage - Visiting the Ancient Sites of Kobo Daishi 239

Origin of the Number Eighty-Eight 239

Early Edo Period Guidebook 241

Guide Maps of the Shikoku Pilgrimage 242

People Who Make the Pilgrimage 243

Charitable Giving During the Pilgrimage 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-258) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

ISBN:

1905246412

9781905246410

1905246595

9781905246595

OCLC:

74969351