Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE IX
4. Introduction 1
5. The Meaning of the Formation and Structure of the Lotus Sutra 15
6. The Ideas of the Lotus Sutra 37
7. The Lotus Sutra and Saichö's Interpretation of the Realization of Buddhahood with This Very Body 53
8. Pictorial Art of the Lotus Sutra in Japan 75
9. Poetry and Meaning: Medieval Poets and the Lotus Sutra 95
10. The Lotus Sutra and Politics in the Mid-Heian Period 119
11. Historical Consciousness and Hon-jaku Philosophy in the Medieval Period on Mount Hiei 143
12. The Textualized Mountain— Enmountained Text: The Lotus Sutra in Kunisaki 159
13. Tanaka Chigaku: The Lotus Sutra and the Body Politic 191
14. The Lotus Sutra in Modern Japan 209
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 225
16. CONTRIBUTORS 231
17. INDEX 233