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The selected poems of Du Fu

Author: Fu Du; Burton Watson
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.
Series: Translations from the Asian classics.
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"Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of historical  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Translations into English
Named Person: Fu Du
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fu Du; Burton Watson
ISBN: 0231128290 9780231128292 0231128282 9780231128285
OCLC Number: 50132295
Description: xxiii, 173 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgements...xiChronology of Kukai's Interraction With the Nara Clergy...xvIllustrations...xixIntroduction...11. Kukay and (Very) Early Heian Society: A Progelomenon...19Buddhism and the Ritsuryo State...24Kukai and His Alliance with the Nara Clergy...41Part One: Origins, Traces, Nonorigin...672. Kukai's Dissent: Of Mendicancy and Fiction...69Kukai's Youth: Confucian Learning Vis-a-Vis Buddhist Practice...71The State, Ubasoku and Popular Buddhism...76Lacuna Esotericism: The Sangho Shiikhi as a Self-Portrait...83Apologetics or Apologia: The Fictivity of Roko Shiikhi...96The Dilemma of Kukai's Fiction and Mikkyo...1053. Journey to China: Outside Ritsuyo Discourse...113Foreign Language Studies and Esoteric Buddhism...114Master Hui-Kuo and the Study of Esoteric Rituals...120Mantra and the Abhiseka, the Genealogical Studies...127Abhiseka as a General Theory of Enlightenment...1414. (No) Traces of Esoteric Buddhism: Dharani and the Nara Buddhist Literature...151The Zomitsu/Junmitsu Scheme and Its Limitations...152(In)visibility of Esotericism in the Nara Buddhist Culture...154Dharani: Exoteric and Esoteric Functions...159Esoteric Dharani in the Nara Ritual Space...168Discourse, Taxonomy and Kukai's Bibliography...176Part II: Cartography5. Category and History: Constructing the Esoteric...187"Shinghon School" as an Ambivalence in Kukai's Writings...189Tokuitsu and Kukai: The Delineation of Mikhyo, the Esoteric...204Proof of Dharmakaya's Preaching of the Dharma...213Troping the Lineage: The Construction of the Esoteric Nagarjuna...2206. Discourse of Complementarity: Constituting the Esoteric II...237On the Ritual of the Golden Light Sutra...238The Exoteric and the Esoteric Reading of Prajna Paramita...247From Dharani to Mantra: A Paradigm Shift...260Part III Writing and Polity...2757. Semiology of the Dharma; or the Somaticity of the Text...275Of Voice, Letter, and Reality...278Syntax of the World-Text...281On the Science of Writing...288Mantra as Textile Production...293Letters, Life Breath and the Cosmic Palace...3008. Of Mantra and Palace: Textualizing the Emperor, Calamity, and the Cosmos...305Rectification of Names and the Ritsuryo State...310Ritsuryo Buddhism and the Dscourse of Calamaties...315Refiguration of the Emperor: A Reinterpretation of Kukai's Ten Abiding Stages...323Mantra and the New Science of Calamaties...334The Mishuho and the Ritual Reconstruction of the Imperial Palace...3449. Genealogy of Mantra: Kukai's Legacy...359The Emperor's Coronation Abhiseka (sokui kanjo)...367Growth of Extra-ritsuryo Esoteric Monastaries...371Landscape of the Medieval Shinghon School...376Institution of the Dharma Emperor...379Conclusion: Kukai and Writing Toward the Kukai of Extra-Sectarian History...385Post-script...399Problems of the Category of Heian Buddhism...399Kukai and the Limitation of Kuroda's Kenmitsu Theory...416Glossary...429Abbreviations...449Notes...451Selected Bibliography...541Index...579
Series Title: Translations from the Asian classics.
Responsibility: [translated by] Burton Watson.

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The poems of Du Fu (712-77) had a diverse range of subject matter, from personal detail to historical fact, expressed with a richness of language that stretched from the elegant to the colloquial,  Read more...

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