Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism 9780824840501

Table of contents :
Contents
Charts and Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Conventions
Part One: Perspectives and Problems
Chapter One: What Is “Original Enlightenment Thought”?
Chapter Two: Tendai Hongaku Thought and the New Kamakura Buddhism: Rival Theories
Part Two: The World of Medieval Tendai
Chapter Three: The Culture of Secret Transmission
Chapter Four: Hermeneutics, Doctrine, and “Mind-Contemplation”
Chapter Five: Tendai Hongaku Thought and the New Kamakura Buddhism: A Reappraisal
Part Three: Nichiren and His Successors
Chapter Six: Nichiren and the New Paradigm
Chapter Seven: Hokke-Tendai Interactions and the Emergence of a Nichiren HongakuDiscourse
Conclusion
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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