The Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse by Ryuichi Abe

The Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse

Ryuichi Abe

593 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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The great Buddhist priest K?kai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and establishment of tantric -- or esoteric -- Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan. In "The Weaving of Mantra, " Ry?ichi Ab? examines this important religious figure -- ...

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