Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources
Channel: Exploring Premodern Japan
Date: 2022-05-17

With Lucia Dolce, Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism, SOAS University of London

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:08 What is Tantric Buddhism?
3:30 Embryology from Medieval Japanese Tantric Sources
5:56 Sexual Practices and the Mandala of Generative Duality
9:10 The Concept of Heterodoxy
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Dolce, Lucia, “The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources,” in Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions, edited by Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu. Leiden: Brill (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series), 2016, pp. 253-310.
 
Dolce, Lucia, “Nigenteki genri no gireika: Fudō, Aizen to chikara no hizō 二元的原理の儀礼化——不動・愛染と力の秘像 [Ritualizing Duality: Fudō, Aizen and the Secret Iconography of Empowerment],” in Girei no chikara: Chūsei shūkyō no jissen sekai 儀礼の力 —中世宗教の実践世界[The Power of Ritual: The World of Religious Practice in Medieval Japan], edited by Lucia Dolce and Matsumoto Ikuyo 松本郁代. Kyoto: Hōzōkan, 2010, pp. 159- 206.
 
Dolce, Lucia, “The Abhiṣeka of the Yogin: Bodily Practices and the Interiorization of Ritual in Medieval Japan,” in Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion and the Arts, edited by Fabio Rambelli and Or Porath. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022, pp. 275-325.
 
Dolce, Lucia, “Duality and the kami: Reconfiguring Buddhist notions and ritual patterns,” Cahiers d’Extreme-Asie 16, special issue on Medieval Shinto, 2009, pp. 119-150.