Japanese Mandalas

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Japanese Mandalas
By: Grotenhuis

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Author: Grotenhuis
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Representations of Sacred Geography
The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth to seventeenth century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami worshiping (Shinto) tradition. It is generally recognized that many of these mandalas are connected with texts and images from India and the Himalayas. A pioneering theme of this study is that, in addition to the South Asian connections, certain paradigmatic Japanese mandalas reflect pre-Buddhist Chinese concepts, including geographical concepts. In convincing and lucid prose ten Grotenhuis chronicles an intermingling of visual, doctrinal, ritual, and literary elements in these mandalas that has come to be seen as characteristic of the Japanese religious tradition as a whole.

Japanese Mandalas, Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, University of Hawaii Press, 227 pages, $29.95

Preface

Introduction 1
Ch. 1 The Taima Mandara 13
Ch. 2 The Diamond World Mandala 33
Ch. 3 The Womb World Mandala 58
Ch. 4 The Mandala of the Two Worlds in Japan 78
Ch. 5 Mandalas of Individual Deities 96
Ch. 6 Pure Land Mandara in Japan 122
Ch. 7 The Kami-Worshiping Tradition: Kasuga 142
Ch. 8 The Kami-Worshiping Tradition: Kumano 163

Afterword 183
App Chronologies for East Asia 185

Notes 187

Selected Bibliography 207

Index 215

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