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Legend and Legitimation: The Formation of Tendai Esoteric Buddhism in Japan (Melanges Chinois et Bouddhiques)

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 | #983708 in Books |  Peeters |  2009-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.60 x1.00 x6.40l,1.65 | File type: PDF | 423 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| "Impositions, Fables and Forgeries"|By Crazy Fox|Within most overviews of Japanese Buddhism, Shingon usually gets to be characterized as "the" Esoteric school of Buddhism in that neck of the woods. Despite the Tendai school's long and sustained emphasis on and dedication to this particular form of Buddhism, any expertise they might have gained thereby sort of gets short shrift.

During his nine-month stay in China, the Japanese monk Saicho (767-822) was alleged to have been initiated into an illustrious esoteric lineage starting from a prestigious Indian Esoteric patriarch. It is also believed that Saichos Chinese mentor, based on three esoteric texts translated by the Indian Patriarch, transmitted to him some particular forms of esoteric teachings, the core of which is preserved in one of the two "dharma-transmission documents" from Saichos tea...

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