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Kūkai: major works
by Kūkai
fromRecords of civilization, sources and studies / Columbia uni…
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"The Buddhist priest Kūkai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and formal establishment of tantric - or esoteric - Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan and the founding of the Shingon school. In The Weaving of Mantra, author Ryūichi Abé examines this important religious…
Kakuban (1095-1144) is the second most important figure in the history of the Shingon sect of Esoteric Buddhism, but there are few studies about him in Western languages. This work contains a biography and a discussion of Kakuban's works, focusing on his doctrines. Although it i…
