4. Annen, Tankei, Henjō, and Monastic Discipline in the Tendai School: The Background of Annen’s Futsūju Bosatsukai Kōshaku (Extensive commentary on the universal bodhisattva precept ordination)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Conventions and Abbreviations xv
6. 1. Introducing the Precepts and Outlining the Chapters of This Book 1
7. 2. The Brahma’s Net Sutra Precepts 12
8. 3. Annen’s Interpretation of the Tendai Ordination: Its Background and Later Influence 35
9. 4. Annen, Tankei, Henjō, and Monastic Discipline in the Tendai School: The Background of Annen’s Futsūju Bosatsukai Kōshaku (Extensive commentary on the universal bodhisattva precept ordination) 55
10. 5. Japanese Tendai Perfect-Sudden Precepts and the Vinaya 81
11. 6. The Role of Confession in Chinese and Japanese Tiantai/Tendai Bodhisattva Ordinations 96
12. 7. The Lotus Sutra and the Perfect-Sudden Precepts 119
13. 8. Kōen and the Consecrated Ordination 147
14. 9. Ritually Embodying the Lotus Sutra: An Interpretation of the Consecrated Ordination in the Kurodani Lineage 180
15. 10. Training through Debates in Medieval Tendai and Seizan-ha Temples 207
16. 11. Jitsudō Ninkū on Ordinations 232
17. 12. Doctrinal Discussions of Killing in Medieval Tendai Texts 255
18. 13. Can the Precepts Be Lost? Can the Precepts Be Violated? The Role of the Record of the Meaning of the Bodhisattva Precepts in Medieval Tendai Discourse 276
19. 14. Summing Up the Medieval Tendai Precepts and Tracing Those Themes to the Modern Period 301
20. Afterword 329
21. Glossary 331
22. Bibliography 351
23. Index 371
24. About the Author 377