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| A marker for a place that is holy to Shinto, comprised of many strands. |
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| The way of the warrior as a spiritual path |
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| Japanese tea ceremony, expression of 'Chado', the Way of Tea |
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| The ancient imperial accesion ceremony. The harvest festival celebrated by the emperor on this ocassion. |
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| Buddhist followers who went around the country side helping people in villages etc. living as boddhisatvas |
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| one of the ubasoku, he was really important and helped close the rift between elite buddhism and regular buddhism during the Nara period. |
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| A sort of golden age of buddhism that occured after its intorudciton to Japan. Characterized by six schools. A golden age of art etc. in the capital of Nara. However there was a great divide between the elite buddhism practicers in the capital and those in the country, who had to pay hefty taxes to support the lifestyles of the Nara capital dwellers. |
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| an ancient record of how shinto sanctified and legitimized Imperial reign. |
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| Taiho Code of 702/Ritsuryo |
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| Meaning laws and regulation. It clarified the new bureaucratic structure as well as regulating buddhist monks/monasteries, in a bid to make them realize that they were ultimately dependent on the state. |
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| six schools of buddhist thought that existed during the Nara period. Most were just intellectual imports from other countries. The two most influential during the Nara period were Kegon and and Hosso. |
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| Ruler in old Japan. Notable for the fact that he realized that Buddhism was improtant because it could be used to unify japan. |
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| A sentiment popular during the Heian Period at the Heian court. Sensitivity to things. An awareness of the transitory nature of beautiful stuff. |
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| Samurai warrior class from the country side who would eventually overthrow the fujiwaras at the Capital. The viewed the Heian capital as superficially decadent and non-productive. |
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| Founded by Kukai (late known as Kobo Daishi). characterized as an esoteric (thought based and somewhat limited for outsiders) religion and was based in many ways around the idea of a mandala that unified all religion and human experience. Believed that Dainichi (a buddha) is manifest in all things and constitutes all reality. "all visible forms are the buddha's body, all sounds the buddha's voice, and all thoguhts are the buddha's mind" It's esoteric in the sense that they maintain that unenlightened people don't realize this fact. Esoteric: it is secret and profound and countains the final truth. |
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| The great buddha of Nara. Present in all things in the Shingon school. Not an ancient buddha. |
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Esoteric religion. rligion can only be accesed by those taught the secret initations etc. Maintains that spiritual training will make the religion accesible to somebody
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| A shingon meditation technique in which the student envisions a stream of energy leaving his body and entering the deity who is facing him and then returning through the opening at the top of the head. This is to pull the student closer to the deity. |
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| Shingon fire ritual. flammable objects are palced in a fire/on an altar to represent burning away all delusions and impurities, while everyone chants. |
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| A shingon practice done by priests. it invovles spending fifty days in an isolated temple amidst the natural landscape. INvovles waking an worshipng Venus the morning star. fasting?` |
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a folk religion movement in which people from the wilderneress would come down to villages to serve as healers/diviners/exorcists etc. the people were known as yamabushi. Can be seen as a syncretism of shinto shamanism, taosit magic and esoteric buddhism occultism.
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| A buddhist scripture which emphasizes the universality and eternity of buddhahood or nirvana. All sentient beings can find buddhahood, and on a deeper level, are buddhas and always ahve been. |
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| the esoteric practice of running around a mountain stopping at a series of srhines on the way for brief devotion. (marathon monks) |
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| an act by Prince Shotoku which implemented many chinese confucian ideals into japanes society such as filial piety, hierarchies etc. and the imperial bureautcratic system. |
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| "forbidden directions" writings which would advise that it was unwise the travel in a particular direction and advised people on other taboos invovling maelevolent dieties. |
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| Last age of the dharma. had a sense of apocolaypse which lead to a lack of inhibition and spontaineity. The time that the Heian world fell during the samurai attacks. During this time, Buddhism/religion changed in that it became largely faith based as, since the world was in such bad shape, one just had to have faith that buddhism would prevail. |
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| Beauty in that which is old and worn. like the cups in japanese tea ceremonies. |
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| One of the most accesible Buddhist pure lands. Access doesn't depnd on one's deeds or merits or good karma but rather on the grace and gift of Amida which is recieved through intense concentration on that all-powerful buddha. |
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| the recitation (remembering the buddha) which helps one to recieve Amida's gift of entrance to her Pureland. |
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A buddhist practice which sought to be all inclusive and preached the virtue of the Amida pure land and nembutsu. He advocated that to be saved on should constantly recite the nembutsu and always have it one's lips.
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| One time faith/not good works or even multiple recitations was sufficient for salvation, since salvation dpeneds not on us but on the grace of amida. Really it all depends on whether Amida decides to save you. |
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| Depended wholly on the Lotus Sutra (rather than amida or pure land). Believe that the Lotus sutra is the only truth. Needed to know the answer how can I be sure of salvation (common during the kamakura time). Based around the three truths. |
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| Daimoku: practice, Gohonzon: Object of worship, Kaidan: Ordination platform. |
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