Sacred Kōyasan : a pilgrimage to the mountain temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha /

Nicoloff, Philip, 1926-

Sacred Kōyasan : a pilgrimage to the mountain temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha / Philip L. Nicoloff. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xvii, 392 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index.

Going to the Mountain -- Celestial Railroad -- Outside the Fudo Entrance: The Women's Hall -- Staying at a Shukubo Temple -- Our Midday Arrival -- Evening -- "A Mind of Rapture": The Morning Sutra Service -- Life and Legend of Kobo Daishi (Kukai) -- Early Years -- To China's Ch'ang-an and Hui-kuo -- Conquest of the Japanese Capital -- Founding of Koyasan -- Servant to Emperor and Nation -- Kukai's Theory of the Ten Stages -- "Death" of Kukai -- Twelve Centuries on the Mountain -- Abbot Kangen Visits the Tomb (835-921) -- Joyo, Fujiwara Michinaga, and Ex-Emperor Shirakawa (921-1129) -- Koya-hijiri, the Rise of Pure Land Buddhism, and Kakuban (1073-1143) -- Kiyomori (1150-1186) -- Kamakura Era (1185-1333) -- Under the Ashikaga Shogunate (1336-1573) -- Oda Nobunaga: Koyasan under Siege (1571-1582) -- ^ Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Ch. 2 Ch. 3 Ch. 4


English.

9781435632912 (electronic bk.) 1435632915 (electronic bk.)


Kūkai, 774-835.
Kūkai, 774-835.


Kōyasan Monasteries (Japan)
Kōyasan Monasteries (Japan)


RELIGION--Buddhism--Rituals & Practice.


Electronic books.

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