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Tables of Contents for The Weaving of Mantra
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Chronology of Kukai's Interaction with the Nara Clergy
xv
Illustrations
xix
Introduction
1
18
Kukai and (Very) Early Heian Society: A Prolegomenon
19
48
Buddhism and the Ritsuryo State
24
17
Kukai and His Alliance with the Nara Clergy
41
26
PART I Origin, Traces, Nonorigin
67
118
Kukai's Dissent: Of Mendicancy and Fiction
69
44
Kukai's Youth: Confucian Learning vis-a-vis Buddhist Practice
71
5
The State, Ubasoku, and Popular Buddhism
76
7
Lacuna of Esotericism: The Sango shiiki as a Self-Portrait
83
13
Apologetics or Apologia: The Fictivity of the Roko shiiki
96
9
The Dilemma of Kukai's Fiction and Mikkyo
105
8
Journey to China: Outside Ritsuryo Discourse
113
38
Foreign Language Studies and Esoteric Buddhism
114
6
Master Hui-kuo and the Study of Esoteric Rituals
120
7
Mantra and Abhiseka, the Genealogical Technologies
127
14
Abhiseka as a General Theory of Enlightenment
141
10
(No) Traces of Esoteric Buddhism: Dharani and the Nara Buddhist Literature
151
34
The Zomitsu/Junmitsu Scheme and Its Limitations
152
2
(In)visibility of Esotericism in the Nara Buddhist Culture
154
5
Dharani: Exoteric and Esoteric Functions
159
9
Esoteric Dharani in the Nara Ritual Space
168
8
Discourse, Taxonomy, and Kukai's Bibliography
176
9
PART II Cartography
185
88
Category and History: Constructing the Esoteric, I
187
50
``Shingon School'' as an Ambivalence in Kukai's Writings
189
15
Tokuitsu and Kukai: The Delineation of Mikkyo, the Esoteric
204
9
Proof of the Dharmakaya's Preaching of the Dharma
213
7
Troping the Lineage: The Construction of the Esoteric Nagarjuna
220
17
The Discourse of Complementarity: Constructing the Esoteric, II
237
36
On the Ritual of the Golden Light Sutra
238
9
The Exoteric and the Esoteric Reading of the Prajna-paramita
247
13
From Dharani to Mantra: A Paradigm Shift
260
13
PART III Writing and Polity
273
126
Semiology of the Dharma; or, The Somaticity of the Text
275
30
Of Voice, Letter, and Reality
278
3
Syntax of the World-Text
281
7
On the Science of Writing
288
5
Mantra as Textile Production
293
7
Letters, Life Breath, and the Cosmic Palace
300
5
Of Mantra and Palace: Textualizing the Emperor, Calamity, and the Cosmos
305
54
Rectification of Names and the Ritsuryo State
310
5
Ritsuryo Buddhism and the Discourse of Calamities
315
8
Refiguration of the Emperor: A Reinterpretation of Kukai's Ten Abiding Stages
323
11
Mantra and the New Science of Calamities
334
10
The Mishuho and the Ritual Reconstruction of the Imperial Palace
344
15
A Genealogy of Mantra: Kukai's Legacy
359
40
The Emperor's Coronation Abhiseka (sokui kanjo)
359
8
Growth of Extra-ritsuryo Esoteric Monasteries
367
4
Landscape of the Medieval Shingon School
371
5
Institution of the Dharma Emperor (hoo)
376
3
Esotericism, Orthodoxy, and the Relic
379
6
Conclusion: Kukai and Writing---Toward the Kukai of Extra-sectarian History
385
14
Postscript
399
30
Problems with the Category of Heian Buddhism
399
17
Kukai and the Limitations of Kuroda's Kenmitsu Theory
416
13
Glossary
429
20
Abbreviations
449
2
Notes
451
90
Selected Bibliography
541
38
Index
579