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Kūkai: major works

Kūkai, 774-835., Hakeda, Yoshito S.

Year: 1972.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Life of Kūkai

1. YOUTH

2. DAYS OF CRISIS

3. RENUNCIATION AND QUEST

4. ENCOUNTER WITH MASTER HUI‐KUO

5. PERIOD OF TRIAL

6. RISE TO EMINENCE

7. ABHIṢEKA CEREMONIES AT THE TAKAOSANJI

8. FOUNDING OF MT. KŌYA

9. THE TŌJI PERIOD

10. RETURN TO MT. KŌYA

Part Two: Thought of Kūkai

1. EXOTERIC BUDDHISM AND ESOTERIC BUDDISM

2. ESSENTIALS OF KŪKAI'S ESOTERIC BUDDHIST THOUGHT AND PRACTICE

Part Three: Major Works of Kūkai

1. INDICATIONS OF THE GOALS OF THE THREE TEACHINGS

2. A MEMORIAL PRESENTING A LIST OF NEWLY IMPORTED SUTRAS AND OTHER ITEMS

3. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXOTERIC AND ESOTERIC BUDDISM

4. THE PRECIOUS KEY TO THE SECRET TREASURY

5. ATTAINING ENLIGHTENMENT IN THIS VERY EXISTENCE

6. THE MEANINGS OF SOUND, WORD, AND REALITY

7. THE MEANINGS OF THE WORD HŪṂ

8. THE SECRET KEY TO THE HEART SUTRA

Chronological Table

Selected Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

Kūkai : major works / translated, with an account of his life and a study of his thought, by Yoshito S. Hakeda.

Author:

Kūkai, 774-835; Hakeda, Yoshito S

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Kūkai : major works / translated, with an account of his life and a study of his thought, by Yoshito S. Hakeda.
Kūkai, 774-835, Hakeda, Yoshito S
New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06009

Subject Headings:

• Shingon (Sect) -- Japan
• Tantric Buddhism -- Japan
• Buddhist sects -- Japan

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