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1 Heian Buddhism ( ) Kūkai s Two Kinds of Knowing as Paradigm for Japanese Religious Thought Thomas P. Kasulis The Ohio State University ASDP NEH Institute EWC, 09June2015
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3 Heian Buddhist Thought Saichō 最澄 ( ) & Kūkai 空海 ( ) Heian Buddhism as Response to Nara Spirituality Spirituality of Nara period (710-94) tensions Chinese vs. Japanese language Theory vs. praxis Chinese-style scholarship vs. native naturalistic animism City vs. mountains
4 Aspects of Ancient (Pre-Heian) Spirituality I Ancient spirituality (proto-shintō) Animism; no spirit/matter dichotomy Kami worship; human-natural-divine as interlinked Example: early 8 th c. poem by Yamanoue no Okura Elegy to a Dead Wife
5 Aspects of Ancient (Pre-Heian) Spirituality II Chinese-derived philosophical ideas Confucianism: ethics as human relations; social harmony Buddhism: introspection, discipline of inner self; ritual power; soteriological theories The Buddhist Six Nara Study Centers Character and purpose Not often source of creative doctrinal development
6 Aspects of Ancient (Pre-Heian) Spirituality III City temples: sites of study, public ritual Personal praxis often in retreats away from the capital Mountain forests, caves, etc. Practices often mix of Daoist, Buddhist, proto-shinto, folk Little or no systemization or justification (no metapraxis)
7 Heian Buddhist Contribution Saichō 最澄 ( ) & Kūkai 空海 ( ) Saichō: founder of Japanese Tendai Buddhism based in Chinese Tiantai tradition but added esoteric elements Kūkai: founder of Japanese Shingon Buddhism based on Chinese Zhenyan ( truth word or mantra ) tradition strictly esoteric (vajrayāna, mantrayana) form of Buddhism Joint Impact of Saichō and Kūkai Creative development of Buddhist thought and praxis Full adaptation of Buddhism to its Japanese context Both Tendai and Shingon built comprehensive monastic centers in mountains Interactions with state politics as intellectual center of nation
8 Heian Buddhist Contributions Saichō 最澄 ( ) & Kūkai 空海 ( ) Saichō s contribution: mainly important for institutional development As important for his lineage of students as for his own accomplishments Kūkai s contribution: established comprehensive, often innovative, system of theory and praxis Made esotericism a dominant force in future Japanese intellectual development Rest of today s session will focus on Kūkai s philosophical vision (Next time: Tendai developments as lead into Kamakura religions)
9 Two Kinds of Knowing Japanese Philosophy as a Riff on Kukai s Philosophy of Engagement
10 Approaching the Esoteric What kind of knowledge is involved in: Speaking your native language? Moving your legs and keeping your balance when you walk? Singing on-key?
11 Two Ways of Knowing Who better knows clay? (a) A geologist or (b) a potter? Who better knows words? (a) A philologist or (b) a poet? Who better knows flowers? (a) A botanist or (b) a Japanese flower arranger? Who better knows breath? (a) A pulmonologist or (b) a meditator?
12 Henri Bergson ( ) [P]hilosophers, in spite of their apparent divergencies, agree in distinguishing two profoundly different ways of knowing a thing. The first implies that we move round the object; the second that we enter into it (1906)
13 Henri Bergson: On Knowing a Moving Object I am attributing to the moving object an interior and, so to speak, states of mind; I also imply that I am in sympathy with those states, and that I insert myself in them by an effort of imagination.
14 Two Kinds of Knowing Integrity of knower and known Detached Knowing Intimacy between knower and known Engaged Knowing Each implies a different model of relationship External vs. internal
15 External & Internal Relations
16 Philosophizing Assuming External Relations The Integrity Model of Detached Knowing
17 Detached Knowing Reality exists out there I (or my mind) exists over here Knowledge bridges the gap between the two The known: unchanged by becoming known The knower: unchanged by knowing process
18 Philosophizing Assuming Internal Relations The Intimacy Model of Engaged Knowing
19 Engaged Knowing Knowledge as overlap of knower and known For example: Clay and potter work together to make pottery Each is transformed in the process Metaphor for detached knowing -- mirror Metaphor for engaged knowing -- resonance
20 The Resonance of Attunement
21 Lack of Attunement
22 Dissonance with Not-attunement
23 Recurrent Theme in Japanese Religious Philosophy Recognition of two kinds of knowing Detached knowing: cognitive, intellectual, mental Separation of knower and known in external relation Acquisition of facts what is the case Engaged knowing: involves whole bodymind system; Knower and known overlap in internal relation Attunement/participation in resonance Integrity of knower/known vs. intimacy between knower/known
24 Kūkai: The Man, the Legend & His Project 空海 Kūkai ( ) [Kōbō Daishi] 弘法大師
25 The Man: His Background Aristocratic family from Shikoku Sent to Nagaoka to train in Chinese classics & get govt post Leaves daigaku 大学 and city of Nara to do spiritual training in remote areas Encounters esoteric Buddhist teachings and goes to China to study under Huiguo 惠果 ( ) Returns as patriarch of Shingon 真言 Buddhism
26 Kūkai s Lengendary Status in Japan Japan s first (and perhaps greatest) systematic philosopher Founded Japanese Shingon: trained in China by Huiguo 惠果 Accomplished in the cultural arts: calligraphy, sculpture Poetry and poetic treatises recognized even in China Encyclopedic knowledge of all East Asian philosophies Legendary thaumaturgical powers
27 In cave on coast of Shikoku Late 8 th century College drop-out in cave, chanting one million times mantra to Bodhisattva Kokūzō
28 Two great ambitions Kūkai s Personality Desire to understand everything Hope to unite Chinese learning and Japanese animism; unite mountain praxis and urban systematic study centers Purpose of practice in cave Ability to understand every passage in every Buddhist text Why ritual praxis instead of studying in urban educational centers? To understand everything, need to understand basis of everything need a metaphysical vision of reality
29 Reality as a Field of Resonance: Analogy for Kūkai s Worldview
30 Basics of Shingon ( 真言 )Buddhism Shingon = Truth Word or Mantra
31 Japanese Shingon Buddhism Fundamental assumption: Enlightenment through ritual engagement with cosmos Came to Japan from India via China (where Kūkai studied it) Akin to tantric traditions of India & Tibet Shingon: Esoteric 密教 (mikkyō) over Exoteric 顕教 (kengyō) Intimate engagement w/ reality, not detached objectivity Esoteric (mitsu) implies intimacy, minutely detailed Exoteric (ken) implies manifest, surface level Exoteric refers to reality; Esoteric confers with reality Such conference involves body, speech, and mind
32 Experiment I: Expressing w/ the Computer Imagine/enact typing sentence: Think outside the box! Mind: Thinking the sentence Speech: Saying it in your head Body: Fingers typing it } Single unified event
33 Three Dimensions of Shingon Ritual--Mudrā Body Formulaic Gestures (usually of hands & fingers) PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT
34 Three Dimensions of Shingon Ritual--Mantra Speech Chanted Expression of Basic Sounds Truth Words VOICED WORDS = RESONANCES FORMING ELEMENTS OF REALITY Six seed mantras A Earth (chi 土 ) Va water (sui 水 ) Ra fire (ka 火 ) Ha wind (fū 風 ) Kha space (kū 空 ) Hūṃ consciousness (shiki 識 )
35 Three Dimensions of Shingon Ritual--Mandala Mind Mandala MAP OF STRUCTURE Womb (Matrix) Mandala Diamond Mandala
36 Kūkai: the legend Combination of Merlin and Thomas Aquinas: Wizard and Systematic Religious Thinker Thaumaturgist: miraculous powers of wonder-working Systematic Religious thinker: writer of Himitsu mandara jūjūshinron 秘密曼荼羅十住心論 : comprehensive study of mindsets behind all philosophical theories known in Japan at time
37 Kūkai: His Project Personal: to understand everything Spiritual: Integrate doctrine & practice Cultural: Chinese learning and Japanese animistic sensitivity Way to understand everything is to know through praxis of ritual By letting go of everyday patterns, one become responsive, flexible Responsive flexibility allows one to synchronize w/ resonance of cosmos
38 Responsiveness/Flexibility Leads to Synchronization
39 Kūkai s Proprioceptive Cosmos Kūkai s essay The Meaning of Attaining Buddha with This Very Body Deviates from Dainichi Sūtra & his own earlier writings From five to six elements earth, water, fire, wind, space + consciousness what kind of consciousness; why not mind? Cosmos as self-aware w/o thinking about it
40 Engaging the Proprioceptive Experiment II: Touching your fingers For Kūkai: cosmos is self-aware Able to respond to itself Invisible but active consciousness
41 Foundational Assumption of Kūkai s Metaphysics The cosmos itself is a person, the Buddha Dainichi 大日
42 Kūkai s correlations 3 Karmic functions of person 3 constituents of reality 3 ritual practices Focus of practices 3 intimacies 三密 Thoughts(& Images) Structure Mandala Mind 心 or 意 Words Vibration/ Mantra Voiced Speech Resonance formulaic 口 響 phrases Deeds Patterns of Change Mudra 印 Body 身
43 The intimacy of speech: Buddha entering me 入我 cosmic microcosmic macrocosmic Dainichi s Words (six seed mantras ) Vibration/Resonance 響 (kyō) The Elements Compounded Elements as Our World
44 The intimacy of speech: I entering the Buddha 我入 macrocosmic microcosmic cosmic Ritual chanting (mantra) Vibrations/resonances of chant Words of Buddha
45 [The Buddha] Entering me; I entering [the Buddha] 入我我入 (nyūga ganyū) By engaging in mantra practice, I and universe resonate together (like tuning forks) Engaged knowing through attuned resonance Both I and cosmos are transformed through that attunement If out of tune, unharmonious dissonance Result: sickness, natural disasters, political instability But how can sound lead to harmonious structure of cosmos? How are resonance and mandala related?
46 Cymatics: Study of waves, sonic resonances
47 Cymatics & Mandalas
48 Cymatics & Mandalas
49 Cymatics & Mandalas II
50 Kūkai s Riff for Japanese Philosophy
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