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Zusatztext Payne's project is an extended meditation on "the transmission of certain ways of thinking about language from India through China to Japan." Examining mantra! dhara?i! Daimoku! Komyu shingon! and ajikan in light of European and Asian theories of language! Payne rejects simplistic reductions of such "extraordinary language" to an apophatic rejection of language and argues that linguistic efficacy is "central to the Buddhist tradition transmitted from South to East Asia. Informationen zum Autor Richard K. Payne is Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhist Studies at Institute of Buddhist Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. He specializes in Japanese tantric Buddhism, particularly its ritual practices, and is co-editor of Homa Variations (2016). Explores mantra and other forms of ritual language in Buddhist tantra in Japan, tackling the issue of understanding language in esoteric traditions. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Extraordinary Language Use2. Is Language Communication?: Extraordinary Language in the face of Philosophy of Language3. Indic Understandings of Language—from Vedas to Tantra4. East Asian Understandings of Language5. Emptiness and Cosmogenesis in the Tantric Buddhism of Japan6. The Clear Light Mantra Homa— Religious Agency in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Ritual7. The Authority of the Speech of the Buddha: Aural Dimensions of Epistemology8. Dhara?i in the Lotus Sutra: Indic Context for the Power of Words9. Ajikan : Visualizing the Syllable A10. Concluding ReflectionsBibliography Index...
