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Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan Indic Roots of Mantra 1st edition by Richard Payne ISBN 1350037281 9781350037281

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Author(s): Richard K Payne

ISBN(s): 9781350037267, 1350037265

Edition: Hardcover

File Details: PDF, 4.36 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-7336488 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology, Society Tag: Richard K Payne

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ISBN 10: 1350037281
ISBN 13: 978-1350037281
Author: Richard K Payne

Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan dismantles the preconception that Buddhism is a religion of mystical silence, arguing that language is in fact central to the Buddhist tradition. By examining the use of ‘extraordinary language’-evocations calling on the power of the Buddha-in Japanese Buddhist Tantra, Richard K. Payne shows that such language was not simply cultural baggage carried by Buddhist practitioners from South to East Asia. Rather, such language was a key element in the propagation of new forms of belief and practice. In contrast to Western approaches to the philosophy of language, which are grounded in viewing language as a form of communication, this book argues that it is the Indian and East Asian philosophies of language that shed light on the use of language in meditative and ritual practices in Japan. It also illuminates why language was conceived as an effective means of progress on the path from delusion to awakening.

Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan Indic Roots of Mantra 1st Table of contents:

1. Extraordinary Language Use

2. Is Language Communication? Extraordinary Language in the Face of Philosophy of Language

3. Indic Understandings of Language—From Vedas to Tantra

4. East Asian Understandings of Language

5. Emptiness and Cosmogenesis in the Tantric Buddhism of Japan

6. The Clear Light Mantra: Religious Agency in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Ritual

7. The Authority of the Speech of the Buddha: Aural Dimensions of Epistemology

8. Dhāraṇī in the Lotus Sūtra: Indic Context for the Power of Words

9. Ajikan: Visualizing the Syllable A

10 Concluding Reflections

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