RT Article
T1 Heresy and Liminality in Shingon Buddhism: Deciphering a 15th Century Treatise on Right and Wrong
JF Religions
VO 13
IS 6
A1 Rappo, Gaétan 1981-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1809955378
AB Traditional historiography of Japanese Buddhism presents the Muromachi period as an era of triumph for Zen, and of decline for the previous near-hegemony of Esoteric Buddhism. However, for the Shingon school, the period from the late Middle Ages to early Edo period was rather a phase of expansion, especially in the more remote locales of Eastern Japan. Focusing on a text authored during the fifteenth century, this article will analyze how this idea of the outskirts or periphery was integrated with the process of creation of orthodoxy in local Shingon temples. In doing so, it will shed new light not only on the evolution, but also on the epistemological role of discourse relating to heresy, and on their role in the legitimation of monastic lineages.
K1 Japanese Buddhism
K1 Shingon
K1 Heresy
K1 Manuscript studies
K1 Orthodoxy
K1 Ritual
DO 10.3390/rel13060541