Ryōgen and Mount Hiei
Subtitle: Japanese Tendai in the tenth century
By: Paul Groner.
Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;; 15
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Ryōgen, 912-985; Tendai (Sect) -- History; Priests, Tendai -- Japan -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai school from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to its emergence as the most powerful and influential school of Japanese Buddhism in the last half of the tenth century - a position it would maintain throughout the medieval period. This is the first study in a Western language of the institutional factors that lay behind the school's success. At its core is a biography of a major figure who played an active role during the transformation, Ryogen (912-985). The discussion, however, extends well beyond a simple biography as Ryogen's activities are placed in their historical and institutional context."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-509) and index.
"A Kuroda Institute book."
Table of contents: title: Ryōgen's place in the history of the Tendai School; title: The early history of factionalism within the Tendai School: from Saichō through the mid-tenth century; title: Ryōgen's early years; title: Ryōgen's rise to prominence; title: Ryōgen and the Fujiwaras: patronage and esoteric Buddhism ritual; title: The Ōwa debates; title: Ryōgen's appointment's as head of the Tendai School and to the office of monastic affairs; title: The significance of Ryōgen's revival of the examination system; title: Rebuilding the Tendai establishment on Mount Hiei; title: Ryōgen as Zasu: financing the spread of Tendai influence; title: Factionalism and Ryōgen's efforts to control the order; title: Ryōgen and the role of nuns in ninth- and tenth-century Japan; title: Epilogue: Ryōgen's posthumous career.