Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century 9780824864200
Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and impoverished group of monks in
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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Ryōgen’s Place in the History of the Tendai School
2. The Early History of Factionalism within the Tendai School: From Saichō throug the Mid-tenth Century
3. Ryōgen’s Early Years
4. Ryōgen’s Rise to Prominence
5. Ryōgen’s and the Fujiwaras: Patronage and Esoteric Buddhist Ritual
6. The Ōwa Debates
7. Ryōgen’s Appointments as Head of the Tendai School and to the Office of Monastic Affairs
8. The Significance of Ryōgen’s Revival of the Examination System
9. Rebuilding the Tendai Establishment on Mount Hiei
10. Ryōgen as Zasu: Financing the Spread of Tendai Influence
11. Factionalism and Ryōgen’s Efforts to Control the Order
12. Ryōgen and the Role of Nuns in Ninth- and Tenthcentury Japan
13. Epilogue: Ryōgen’s Posthumous Career
Appendix 1. Ennin and Yokawa
Appendix 2. A Note on Morosuke’s Interests
Appendix 3. Dying Instructions of the Great Archbishop Jie
Appendix 4. Takamitsu’s Retreat to Tōnomine
Appendix 5. A Record of the Ōwa Debates
Appendix 6. Ten Doubts concerning the Hossō School
Appendix 7. Zōga as an Eccentric
Appendix 8. Invocation of Tendai Abbot Ryōgen
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
