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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. |
Abstract:
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, and from the allusive to the direct. This selection includes both famous and lesser-known works.
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"Du Fu, long regarded as China's greatest poet, excelled in a variety of lyrical forms, displaying a richness of language that incorporated formal elegance and powerful colloquialism, flowery allusion and spare, unembellished verse... Watson has selected 127 poems for this collection, including those for which Du Fu is best remembered and several lesser known works that deserve to be rediscovered." -- "Translation Review" Read more...
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