Tantric Poetry of Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), Japan's Buddhist Saint

Tantric Poetry of Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), Japan's Buddhist Saint
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Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
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Includes excerpts from 'The Mahavairocana Sutra' and I-Hsing's 'Commentary of the Sutra'.

Tantric Poetry of Kukai

Tantric Poetry of Kukai
Author: Kūkai
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Release: 1987
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The Weaving of Mantra

The Weaving of Mantra
Author: Ryûichi Abé
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1999-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780231528870

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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. In Ryûichi Abé examines this important religious figure -neglected in modern academic literatu

Tantric Poetry

Tantric Poetry
Author: Karin Heinitz
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2010-06-02
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ISBN: 9781452807843

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This collection of tantric poetry stands in the tradition of mystical poetesses and seers such as Lalla and Akka. Its source is not the sort of New Age 'neo-tantrism' that uses the language of tantra only to offer pseudo-spiritual 'mood music' for the sensual intensification of bodily sex and intimacy. Instead the language of these poems expresses direct, lived experiences of tantra understood in the traditional sense - as a deeply sensual intimacy and intercourse with the Divine. The primary medium of this intercourse is not the sexuality of the physical body but that of the soul and its body. This is our body of sensual, feeling awareness - born from the Great Mother's womb of rich and fertile Darkness into the spacious Living Light of the Lord.

Visible Mantra: Visualising & Writing Buddhist Mantras

Visible Mantra: Visualising & Writing Buddhist Mantras
Author: Jayarava
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0956692915

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The long awaited print version of the popular Buddhist mantra website: visiblemantra.org. This is a celebration of the visual forms of mantra and other varieties of sacred speech, drawing on Buddhist traditions from India, China, Japan, and Tibet. The book includes all the mantras from the website, plus a few more. Each is presented in four scripts: Siddhaṃ (Bonji 梵字), Lantsa (aka Rañjana), Devanāgarī, and Tibetan (dbu can). Plus seed-syllables, dhāraṇī and Pāli chants. All accompanied by Jayarava's meticulously researched notes and comments, and background reading drawn from Jayarava's blog. An invaluable resource for Buddhist artists, calligraphers and practitioners.

Kukai

Kukai
Author: Kūkai
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1972
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780231059336

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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, engineering, calligraphy, and architecture and is represented in this work in terms of his major effort--the introduction of esoteric Buddhism from China, which resulted in the formation of the Shingou sect still active in Japan. Eight of his works are presented here.

Sacred Interconnections

Sacred Interconnections
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791402313

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This book shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art. It shows that the awareness of interconnectedness is at the center of the postmodern sensibility. Sacred Interconnections illustrates the rejection of the modern idea that these subjects can be discussed as separate disciplines. While the term "postmodern" has been widely used for deconstructive, cynical, even nihilistic attitude, especially in the world of art and literature, the book represents the emergence of a reconstructive, reenchanting postmodernism, even within the artistic and literary circles.

Shingon

Shingon
Author: Taikō Yamasaki
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1988
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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