The Doctrinal Origins of Embryology in the Shingon School

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 0 RELIGION JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI:10.18874/jjrs.47.1.2020.85-102
T. Kameyama
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In this article, I discuss the significance of embryological knowledge, such as the red and white drops and the five developmental stages of the embryo, in medieval Shingon esoteric Buddhism. Specifically, I examine the writings of Kakuban, an eminent Shingon Buddhist monk in early medieval Japan, and point out that, according to Kakuban, embryological knowledge was connected with the six elements, which were fundamental to Shingon conceptions of ontology. In other words, by constructing embryological theories, medieval Shingon monks such as Kakuban attempted to make a correlation between abstract and distant cosmologies and the life and death realities of their daily lives.
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信安学派胚胎学的理论起源
在这篇文章中,我讨论了胚胎学知识的意义,如红、白滴和胚胎的五个发育阶段,在中世纪的神功密教中。具体而言,我考察了日本中世纪早期的神功高僧Kakuban的著作,并指出,根据Kakuban,胚胎学知识与六要素有关,这六要素是神功本体论的基础。换句话说,通过构建胚胎学理论,像Kakuban这样的中世纪辛贡僧侣试图将抽象和遥远的宇宙学与他们日常生活的生死现实联系起来。
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期刊介绍: The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies is a peer-reviewed journal registered as an Open Access Journal with all content freely downloadable. The journal began in 1960 as Contemporary Religions in Japan, which was changed to the JJRS in 1974. It has been published by the Nanzan Institute since 1981. The JJRS aims for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion in Japan, and submissions are welcomed from scholars in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. To submit a manuscript or inquiry about publishing in our journal, please contact us at the address below.
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