Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

by Jacqueline I. Stone

Book Overview

Original enlightenment thought (hongaku shiso) dominated Buddhist intellectual circles throughout Japan's medieval period. Enlightenment, this discourse claims, is neither a goal to be achieved nor a potential to be realized but the true status of all things. Every animate and inanimate object manifests the primordially enlightened Buddha just as it is. Seen in its true aspect, every activity of daily life--eating, sleeping, even one's deluded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824827716
• ISBN13: 9780824827717
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"