Title:

Creating Heresy: (Mis)representation, Fabrication, and the Tachikawa-ryu

Author(s):

Hino, Takuya

Thesis Advisor(s):

Como, Michael I.

Date:

2012

Type:

Dissertations

Department:

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12413

Notes:

Ph.D., Columbia University.

Abstract:

In this dissertation I provide a detailed analysis of the role played by the Tachikawa-ryu in the development of Japanese esoteric Buddhist doctrine during the medieval period (900-1200). In doing so, I seek to challenge currently held, inaccurate views of the role played by this tradition in the history of Japanese esoteric Buddhism and Japanese religion more generally. The Tachikawa-ryu, which has yet to receive sustained attention in English-language scholarship, began in the twelfth century and later came to be denounced as heretical by mainstream Buddhist institutions. The project will be divided into four sections: three of these will each focus on a different chronological stage in the development of the Tachikawa-ryu, while the introduction will address the portrayal of this tradition in twentieth-century scholarship.

Subject(s):

Religion
Asian studies
Asian history
Medieval history

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