Esoteric Zen : Zen and the Tantric teachings in premodern Japan / by Stephan Kigensan Licha.
"When a Zen teacher tells you to point at your mind, which part of your body do you point at? According to the Japanese master Chikotsu Daie (1229-1312), you should point at the fistful of meat that is your heart. Esoteric Zen demonstrates that far from an outlier, Daie's understanding ref...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Three Buddhas Sitting in a Maṇḍala
- 1. Outside the Teachings: Enni, Jōmyō, and the Common Conceptual Space of Zen and Tendai in Early Medieval Japan
- 2. The Vicissitudes of Turning Upward: Enni's Three Mechanisms and Their Contexts
- 3. The Zen of Mahāvairocana: Enni on Zen and the Tantric Teachings
- 4. The Heart of Flesh in the Body of the Teachings: Variations on Esoteric Zen in Enni, Chikotsu, and Kokan
- 5. Means of Mediation: Kōan Interpretation from Enni to Sōtō Lineages
- 6. The Topology of the Womb: Enni, Chikotsu, Dōhan, and the Beginnings of Zen Embryology
- 7. The Womb Was Their Kōan: Zen Embryology in Late Medieval Genjū and Sōtō Lineages
- Conclusions: Tantra, Zen, and Oranges
- Bibliography
- Index.