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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Chronology of Kukai's Interaction with the Nara Clergy | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Kukai and (Very) Early Heian Society: A Prolegomenon | |
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| Buddhism and the Ritsuryo State | |
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| Kukai and His Alliance with the Nara Clergy | |
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| Origin, Traces, Nonorigin | |
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| Kukai's Dissent: Of Mendicancy and Fiction | |
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| Kukai's Youth: Confucian Learning vis-a-vis Buddhist Practice | |
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| The State, Ubasoku, and Popular Buddhism | |
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| Lacuna of Esotericism: The Sango shiiki as a Self-Portrait | |
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| Apologetics or Apologia: The Fictivity of the Roko shiiki | |
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| The Dilemma of Kukai's Fiction and Mikkyo | |
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| Journey to China: Outside Ritsuryo Discourse | |
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| Foreign Language Studies and Esoteric Buddhism | |
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| Master Hui-kuo and the Study of Esoteric Rituals | |
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| Mantra and Abhiseka, the Genealogical Technologies | |
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| Abhiseka as a General Theory of Englightenment | |
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| (No) Traces of Esoteric Buddhism: Dharani and the Nara Buddhist Literature | |
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| The Zomitsu/Junmitsu Scheme and Its Limitations | |
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| (In)visibility of Esotericism in the Nara Buddhist Culture | |
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| Dharani: Exoteric and Esoteric Functions | |
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| Esoteric Dharani in the Nara Ritual Space | |
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| Discourse, Taxonomy, and Kukai's Bibliography | |
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| Cartography | |
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| Category and History: Constructing the Esoteric, I | |
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| "Shingon School" as an Ambivalence in Kukai's Writings | |
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| Tokuitsu and Kukai: The Delineation of Mikkyo, the Esoteric | |
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| Proof of the Dharmakaya's Preaching of the Dharma | |
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| Troping the Lineage: The Construction of the Esoteric Nagarjuna | |
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| The Discourse of Complementarity: Constructing the Esoteric, II | |
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| On the Ritual of the Golden Light Sutra | |
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| The Exoteric and the Esoteric Reading of the Prajna-paramita | |
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| From Dharani to Mantra: A Paradigm Shift | |
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| Writing and Polity | |
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| Semiology of the Dharma; or, The Somaticity of the Text | |
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| Of Voice, Letter, and Reality | |
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| Syntax of the World-Text | |
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| On the Science of Writing | |
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| Mantra as Textile Production | |
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| Letters, Life Breath, and the Cosmic Palace | |
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| Of Mantra and Palace: Textualizing the Emperor, Calamity, and the Cosmos | |
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| Rectification of Names and the Ritsuryo State | |
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| Ritsuryo Buddhism and the Discourse of Calamities | |
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| Refiguration of the Emperor: A Reinterpretation of Kukai's Ten Abiding Stages | |
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| Mantra and the New Science of Calamities | |
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| The Mishuho and the Ritual Reconstruction of the Imperial Palace | |
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| A Genealogy of Mantra: Kukai's Legacy | |
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| The Emperor's Coronation Abhiseka (sokui kanjo) | |
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| Growth of Extra-ritsuryo Esoteric Monasteries | |
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| Landscape of the Medieval Shingon School | |
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| Institution of the Dharma Emperor (hoo) | |
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| Esotericism, Orthodoxy, and the Relic | |
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| Conclusion: Kukai and Writing--Toward the Kukai of Extra-sectarian History | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Problems with the Category of Heian Buddhism | |
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| Kukai and the Limitations of Kuroda's Kenmitsu Theory | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |